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The following instructions show you how to convert a project managed by SVA and Subversion to a Git repository. This is a one-way conversion, useful when you are no longer going to be using Subversion for your project.
You can convert your entire Subversion repository, one project at a time, using the provided script.
Although you don't have to, for performance reasons I recommend that you work with a locally accessible Subversion repository.
The easiest way to accomplish this is to dump the remote repository, and then load it locally. If you're not familiar with that process, you might want to review these notes.
Before you can begin, you will need to have a working installation of
Git that includes the git-svn tool. You should probably install Git
using a package manager since the git-svn tool requires that you have
all the Perl modules for the Subversion bindings installed.
Once you have git-svn installed, download a copy of this script. The
sva2git.sh script will import your project from the Subversion
repository and then do some cleanup to preserve your experimental
branches and release tags.
To convert a foo project from a Subversion repository repo, do the following:
$ sh sva2git.sh repo foo
This will leave you with a bare Git repository called foo.git. If you
want to inspect the converted repository before transferring it
somewhere, just clone it:
$ git clone foo.git $ ls foo
You can further control the conversion script with the following command line options.
You should create an authors file before you do the conversion so that you have sane looking commits in your new Git repository.
See the -A option to git-cvsimport for information about how to format
the authors file. Use the -A option to sva2git.sh to activate an
authors file.
Since git-svn can only import one branch path and tag path correctly
from Subversion, you won't be able to import all of your branches and
tags from your SVA managed Subversion repository.
By default, the sva2git.sh script will convert your experimental
branches, and your release tags. If you want to import another set of
branches or tags to Git, use the -b and -t options to sva2git.sh.
Peter Jones has been working in the software industry for over 15 years as a developer, manager, and an executive.
