Re: SVN to Git: trunk moved during repository history

From: Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2010, 14:03 UTC
Message-ID: <l2o2f0f6ced1004210703rf3ce8781kd209e99d2b577b76@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <hqir8c$sqh$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hmm, I'm not seeing where in the documentation you would instruct it to look in multiple locations in the SVN repository's history for the trunk branch.

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Bradley Wagner wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to port an SVN project to Git. We have gone through
>> multiple layouts for our SVN repository. It started off with just a
>> mainline branch in the root folder. Then we went to the standard
>> layout (branches, trunk, tags).
>>
>> The problem is that when I do a "git svn clone --stdlayout" of the
>> repository, it's not picking up any of the revisions from when the
>> trunk previously resided in the root directory.
>> Is there any way to specify that the trunk had multiple paths the way
>> you can specify multiple branch folders with -b flag? What would be
>> the best course of action for reporting an SVN repo who's layout had
>> changed during its history?
>
> One option is svn2git
>
> http://gitorious.org/svn2git/svn2git
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git
>
> examples:
>
> http://gitorious.org/svn2git/kde-ruleset
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bradley
>
>
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