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extracting original git commits from "git svn" repository?

Subject: extracting original git commits from "git svn" repository?

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Anthony Foiani· Aug 28, 2011, 08:13 UTC · lore

About two years ago, I started an SVN repo for a private project. After a few months, I started using "git svn" for day-to-day updating (to take advantage of offline commits, etc). git-svn has been fantastic, but since it doesn't maintain AuthorDate (or, if it does, I don't know how to ask it to do so), I'd like to migrate that SVN repo to a git repo.

Is there any straightforward way to recover the "original" git commits (spread out across two different workstations), so I can reinstate the proper AuthorDate information?

Does this request even make sense?

I can have all the original data in one place, and I've got plenty of CPU and RAM to throw at the problem:

  server.svn/...
  workstation1.git/...
  workstation2.git/...

I'm hoping that it can be done with sufficient trawling through the reflog, but I thought I'd ask before trying to do the conversion myself.

Thanks in advance, Tony

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