# conversion from svn with renames 3 messages from 2007-07-29 to 2007-11-16. Participants: Ricardo SIGNES, Väinö Järvelä. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9289 ## Ricardo SIGNES, 2007-07-29 12:23 Subject: conversion from svn with renames Message-ID: <20070729122301.GA17016@knight.manxome.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070729122301.GA17016%40knight.manxome.org ``` I'd like to convert svn.codesimply.com/projects' contents to git. Right now, the content is like this: /projects/$PROJECTNAME/{trunk,tags,branches} git-svnimport does well if I specify projects/$PROJECTNAME/trunk as the trunk directory and that/tags as the tags directory. (I am not interested in bothering with branches.) The problem is this: For many of the projects, $PROJECTNAME was once "foo" and is now "bar." git-svnimport only imports the history from the current name. I tried to import foo, then bar, into one git repostiory, but the histories didn't seem to get connected. Sam V. suggested git-filter-branch, but I didn't quite see how to make it do what I wanted. I would greatly appreciate any advice or help on this conversion. -- rjbs ``` ## Väinö Järvelä, 2007-11-16 03:16 Subject: Re: conversion from svn with renames Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/D5A64E6F-D80B-4FCD-8184-F53812D4312E%40pp.inet.fi In-Reply-To: <20070729122301.GA17016@knight.manxome.org> ``` Hi, I tried importing an SVN project with svn-import, and the project had been renamed once. It seems that git-svn is more mature tool for this, even if svn-import seems to be the one to use. If I remember correctly, there was even talk about this very same case in the mailing list archives. To make a complete conversion from SVN repository to GIT repositories, just use --no-metadata option to remove all the metadata git-svn normally appends to the commit messages. There will also be some cruft in the .git/config file, I removed those, and have had an working import with renames from SVN. -- Väinö On Jul 29, 2007, at 15:23, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > > I'd like to convert svn.codesimply.com/projects' contents to git. > > Right now, the content is like this: > > /projects/$PROJECTNAME/{trunk,tags,branches} > > git-svnimport does well if I specify projects/$PROJECTNAME/trunk as > the trunk > directory and that/tags as the tags directory. (I am not interested > in > bothering with branches.) The problem is this: > > For many of the projects, $PROJECTNAME was once "foo" and is now > "bar." > git-svnimport only imports the history from the current name. > > I tried to import foo, then bar, into one git repostiory, but the > histories > didn't seem to get connected. Sam V. suggested git-filter-branch, > but I didn't > quite see how to make it do what I wanted. > > I would greatly appreciate any advice or help on this conversion. > > -- > rjbs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ``` ## Väinö Järvelä, 2007-11-16 03:49 Subject: Re: conversion from svn with renames Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AFD16773-F585-43B1-878C-3CD4A54A26FB%40pp.inet.fi In-Reply-To: ``` Eh, sorry for replying to a old post, I had accidentally had my mail sorted in reverse. I hope the post was still useful. -- Väinö On Nov 16, 2007, at 05:16, Väinö Järvelä wrote: > Hi, > > I tried importing an SVN project with svn-import, and the project > had been renamed once. It seems that git-svn is more mature tool for > this, even if svn-import seems to be the one to use. If I remember > correctly, there was even talk about this very same case in the > mailing list archives. > > To make a complete conversion from SVN repository to GIT > repositories, just use --no-metadata option to remove all the > metadata git-svn normally appends to the commit messages. There will > also be some cruft in the .git/config file, I removed those, and > have had an working import with renames from SVN. > > -- > Väinö > > On Jul 29, 2007, at 15:23, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > >> >> I'd like to convert svn.codesimply.com/projects' contents to git. >> >> Right now, the content is like this: >> >> /projects/$PROJECTNAME/{trunk,tags,branches} >> >> git-svnimport does well if I specify projects/$PROJECTNAME/trunk as >> the trunk >> directory and that/tags as the tags directory. (I am not >> interested in >> bothering with branches.) The problem is this: >> >> For many of the projects, $PROJECTNAME was once "foo" and is now >> "bar." >> git-svnimport only imports the history from the current name. >> >> I tried to import foo, then bar, into one git repostiory, but the >> histories >> didn't seem to get connected. Sam V. suggested git-filter-branch, >> but I didn't >> quite see how to make it do what I wanted. >> >> I would greatly appreciate any advice or help on this conversion. >> >> -- >> rjbs >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ```