# Importing from subversion with full history 1 messages from 2013-11-04 to 2013-11-04. Participants: Oded Arbel. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/35272 ## Oded Arbel, 2013-11-04 07:50 Subject: Importing from subversion with full history Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAOqhUvzXUmF3bSX6ShQ3DpBGLgQfGyeUBabY%3DYkORSpSa0bvcQ%40mail.gmail.com ``` I'm trying to import our team's old subversion repository to git, but I'd like to retain the commit history. I tried 'git svn clone' but that only retrieves commits from the last copy onwards. Because the svn setup is really bad, there is no way I can reproduce the "stdlayout" structure that 'git svn' likes, or any other structure where the trunk isn't a just few versions down from a copy. Is there a way to have 'git svn' not do "--stop-on-copy" when fetching history? I'm perfectly fine with getting a simple linear history (because trying to do anything else with our svn setup will put our sanity in danger), but I couldn't find any documentation on how to do so. Thanks in advance, -- Oded ```