# Multiple SVN Repos Inside A Git Repo

2 messages from 2008-12-02 to 2008-12-03. Participants: Tim Sally, Michael J Gruber.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16564

## Tim Sally, 2008-12-02 20:22

Subject: Multiple SVN Repos Inside A Git Repo
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Using git-svn, it is possible to have different parts of a git repo
correspond to a specific svn repo? From my understanding after reading
the documentation, you need one git repository per svn.  My example is
that I'm trying to set up a git repo to version control everything
from my classes, but each class has a separate svn repo.  Also, the
number of git repos I can create is limited, and I'd rather not
clutter everything up with many separate git-svn repos.

Example structure:

class/
.......... systems/
.......... algorithms/
.......... physics/

class is one central git repository, and systems, algorithms, and
physics contain data from three svn repositories.  Ideally, you could
commit/update to/from each svn repo individually, or all at once.

Tim

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## Michael J Gruber, 2008-12-03 13:57

Subject: Re: Multiple SVN Repos Inside A Git Repo
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Tim Sally venit, vidit, dixit 02.12.2008 21:22:
> Using git-svn, it is possible to have different parts of a git repo
> correspond to a specific svn repo? From my understanding after reading
> the documentation, you need one git repository per svn.  My example is
> that I'm trying to set up a git repo to version control everything
> from my classes, but each class has a separate svn repo.  Also, the
> number of git repos I can create is limited, and I'd rather not
> clutter everything up with many separate git-svn repos.
> 
> Example structure:
> 
> class/
> .......... systems/
> .......... algorithms/
> .......... physics/
> 
> class is one central git repository, and systems, algorithms, and
> physics contain data from three svn repositories.  Ideally, you could
> commit/update to/from each svn repo individually, or all at once.
> 
> Tim

You can have as many git svn configurations in a single git repo as you
want (see the "-R" argument to git svn). They will all correspond to
different remote branches. By checking out the branches (or a
corresponding tracking branch) you can switch between the branches, i.e.
between classes.

I don't think a layout as above is possible given your requirements that
- you (basically) want a single git repo and
- you want to be able to commit back.
They exclude using submodules resp. subtree merge.

Michael

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