# How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches? 5 messages from 2007-03-11 to 2007-03-12. Participants: Georg Lohrer, Karl Hasselström, pacco@tropezien.de. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7192 ## Georg Lohrer, 2007-03-11 11:38 Subject: How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches? Message-ID: <45F3EA37.2080502@tropezien.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/45F3EA37.2080502%40tropezien.de ``` Hi, I have searched the archive but did not found any hint for my problem. Perhaps I did not have the right search pattern, but see yourself: The most important thing prior of using git was to import my subversion repositories. It seems to be quite easy if the SVN-repositories are of common structure using the trunk, tags and branches structure. But times ago I have had the idea of not using the traditional structure of subversion for some of my repositories but using the repository directly as single directory - no trunk, no tags, no branches. That was because I thought only a geek would have the "complicated" way for only a few files without any need for tags and branches. And now the git-svnimport does not seem to be able to handle a SVN-repos structure like mine: ~/svnrepos/ |------- projectA |---- foo.cpp |---- foo.h I want to import projectA into git _with_ the commit-history (there are of course no tags and no branches). Is there a way to do that with git-svnimport? Or do I have to throw away all the details, checkout projectA and reimport it as initial version with git? Any hints are warmly appreciated. Ciao, Georg ``` ## Karl Hasselström, 2007-03-11 14:36 Subject: Re: How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches? Message-ID: <20070311143638.GA7822@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070311143638.GA7822%40diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk In-Reply-To: <45F3EA37.2080502@tropezien.de> ``` On 2007-03-11 12:38:31 +0100, Georg Lohrer wrote: > But times ago I have had the idea of not using the traditional > structure of subversion for some of my repositories but using the > repository directly as single directory - no trunk, no tags, no > branches. That was because I thought only a geek would have the > "complicated" way for only a few files without any need for tags and > branches. And now the git-svnimport does not seem to be able to > handle a SVN-repos structure like mine: > > ~/svnrepos/ > |------- projectA > |---- foo.cpp > |---- foo.h > > I want to import projectA into git _with_ the commit-history (there > are of course no tags and no branches). Is there a way to do that > with git-svnimport? Or do I have to throw away all the details, > checkout projectA and reimport it as initial version with git? You could try something like this: trunk: svnrepos/projectA tags: svnrepos/dummytags branches: svnrepos/dummybranches I haven't tested, but I think that kind of maneouver should work. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle ``` ## Georg Lohrer, 2007-03-11 16:57 Subject: Re: How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches? Message-ID: <45F434E9.7040003@tropezien.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/45F434E9.7040003%40tropezien.de In-Reply-To: <20070311143638.GA7822@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> ``` Hi Karl, Karl Hasselström schrieb: > You could try something like this: > > trunk: svnrepos/projectA > tags: svnrepos/dummytags > branches: svnrepos/dummybranches > > I haven't tested, but I think that kind of maneouver should work. yes, that does the trick. I use: $ cd ~/tmp/git-test $ tar xvfj fooRepos.tar.bz2 $ mv fooRepos foorRepos.svnrepos $ svn mkdir file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/fooRepos.svnrepos/dummytags $ svn mkdir file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/foorRepos.svnrepos/dummybranches $ mkdir fooRepos.git; cd fooRepos.git $ git-svnimport -b dummybranches -t dummytags -T projectA file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/fooRepos.svnrepos Unfortunately there was a bunch of directories instead of a single projectA-directory. Do I have to repeat the above mentioned sequence for every directory (projectA, projectB, ...) or is there a simple way of git-svnimport'ing into an existing git-repository? Nevertheless, if that is not possible, I could extract with your way the desired directories separately and keep the histories intact. Regards, Georg ``` ## Karl Hasselström, 2007-03-11 20:26 Subject: Re: How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches? Message-ID: <20070311202620.GB15336@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070311202620.GB15336%40diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk In-Reply-To: <45F434E9.7040003@tropezien.de> ``` On 2007-03-11 17:57:13 +0100, Georg Lohrer wrote: > Karl Hasselström schrieb: > > > You could try something like this: > > > > trunk: svnrepos/projectA > > tags: svnrepos/dummytags > > branches: svnrepos/dummybranches > > yes, that does the trick. I use: > > $ cd ~/tmp/git-test > $ tar xvfj fooRepos.tar.bz2 > $ mv fooRepos foorRepos.svnrepos > $ svn mkdir file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/fooRepos.svnrepos/dummytags > $ svn mkdir file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/foorRepos.svnrepos/dummybranches > $ mkdir fooRepos.git; cd fooRepos.git > $ git-svnimport -b dummybranches -t dummytags -T projectA file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/fooRepos.svnrepos Did you try importing without creating the dummy* directories? I think it may work even if they don't exist. > Unfortunately there was a bunch of directories instead of a single > projectA-directory. Do I have to repeat the above mentioned sequence > for every directory (projectA, projectB, ...) or is there a simple > way of git-svnimport'ing into an existing git-repository? You could try this: trunk: dummy tags: dummy branches: svnrepos That should turn svnrepos/projectA into the branch projectA, svnrepos/projectB into the branch projectB, and so on. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle ``` ## pacco@tropezien.de, 2007-03-12 15:10 Subject: Re: How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches? Message-ID: <1173712232.45f56d6851a5f@secure.konsole-h.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1173712232.45f56d6851a5f%40secure.konsole-h.de In-Reply-To: <20070311202620.GB15336@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> ``` Zitat von Karl Hasselström : > You could try this: > > trunk: dummy > tags: dummy > branches: svnrepos > No, it does not do that. Instead I got a huge amount of errors as with giving no details at all (passing only the non-standard svn-repository). But, I fixed the way around now, by scrutinizing through the history and looking for essential parts. I checkedout the specific versions seperately and rebuild the history by cg-add'ing the file-versions one after the other. The hard way, but there were not many really important files. So, thank you a lot for passing me your help. Ciao, Georg ```