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drewrockshard
Asked: 2010-08-24 16:09:16 +0800 CST

Local SVN repository to git

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I am in the need of converting a local SVN repository to GIT. I know how to convert a remote SVN repository to git, however, I only have the local repositories; they are no longer hosted. How would I go about converting a local SVN repo to git?

What I tried was this:

git svn clone -s file://data/svn/repo/ /data/git/repo.git

Error was:

E: 'trunk' is not a complete URL and a separate URL is not specified

linux svn git

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Figured it out...

    I needed an extra / after file:// so that it started at the root of the filesystem. Darn it!

    Final command worked:

    git svn clone -s file:///data/svn/repo/ /data/git/repo.git

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  2. Another option is to use SubGit

    $ subgit install /data/svn/repo/

    The difference is that is also converts ignores, tags, EOLs-related settings, and the Git created is automatically kept in sync with the SVN repository. To break synchronization run

    $ subgit uninstall /data/svn/repo

    The resulting repository will br

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