Re: Split a subversion repo into several git repos

From: Eivind LM <eivliste@online.no>
Date: Oct 12, 2007, 14:15 UTC
Message-ID: <op.tz28kglcjwclfx@ichi>
In-Reply-To: <e2a1d0aa0710110624x2b50cfafo9bfdc176ba9063ce@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, I found svndumpfilter in the svn book, and gave it a try. Unfortunately it seems to be confused about files that have moved around in the repository, I was at least not able to make it dump the entire history for a directory that over time has changed name, and that contains files that have moved in from other directories.

Eivind

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:24:59 +0200, Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com> wrote:

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> If you look through the Subversion FAQ or the book (I forget where
> I've seen it -- but I know I've seen it), you can export/filter out a
> tree from a subversion repository and load it into a new repository.
> Then you can import from that new repository.
>
> This presumes you have direct access to the subversion repository and
> can run commands like svnadmin --dump.
>
> --wpd
>
>
> On 10/11/07, Eivind LM <eivliste@online.no> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I would like to convert a subversion repository to Git. The subversion
>> repository used to track development of several projects (only slightly
>> related), and I would like to divide the repository into several smaller
>> git repositories.
>>
>> For example, I want to convert one subversion repository which contains
>> the folders:
>> trunk/projectA
>> trunk/projectB
>>
>> into two git repositories:
>> projectA.git
>> projectB.git
>>
>> As far as I have understood, the way to do this is to
>> 1) Convert the entire subversion repository to git with git-svn.
>> 2) Make two copies of the whole new git-repository (projectA.git and
>> projectB.git).
>> 3) Use git-rm to remove projectB from projectA.git, and projectA from
>> projectB.git.
>>
>> This works fine, but both git-repositories now carries the history for
>> both projects. If possible, I would like to "clean" the history in the
>> repositories, so that I don't see history information for projectA when  
>> I
>> am browsing logs in projectB.git. Has anyone been in the same situation?
>> Do you have suggestions on how it can be solved?
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eivind
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