I have a pretty large svn repository with a structure similar to below. I have multiple repositories/projects within one big project. I have been setting up svn2git to transfer svn to git, but it seems like I have to do each single project one by one. Is there an easier/more automatic way to move this svn repo to git? I do want to make sure I keep the commit history, etc.
I'm not entirely sure if this command would put each "project" into it's own folder: svn2git https://my_repo/svn/my_repository
The one problem I could see is that some of these project folders are not following the conventional trunk and tags structure. Any ideas how I could achieve this?
my_repository
project1
trunk
...
tags
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
project2
trunk
...
tags
1.0.5
1.0.6
1.0.7
project3
src
...
file1
file2
project4
trunk
...
tags
1.0.5
1.0.6
1.0.7
There are pleny tools called svn2git
, the probably best one is the KDE one from https://github.com/svn-all-fast-export/svn2git. I strongly recommend using that svn2git
tool. It is the best I know available out there and it is very flexible in what you can do with its rules files.
From you question I see that you are not using this svn2git
, but the ruby one that is based on git-svn
which is not the right tool for one-time conversions of repositories or repository parts. It is a great tool if you want to use Git as frontend for an existing SVN server, but for one-time conversions you should not use git-svn
.
If you are not 100% about the history of your repository, svneverever
from http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=763 is a great tool to investigate the history of an SVN repository when migrating it to Git.
You can easily configure the tool with its rules file to make exactly what you want, including differeing layouts for projects and splitting your SVN root into multiple Git repositories however you like.
Even though git-svn is easier to start with, here are some further reasons why using the KDE svn2git
instead of git-svn
is superior, besides its flexibility:
svn2git
(if the correct one is used), this is especially the case for more complex histories with branches and merges and so ongit-svn
the tags contain an extra empty commit which also makes them not part of the branches, so a normal fetch
will not get them until you give --tags
to the command as by default only tags pointing to fetched branches are fetched also. With the proper svn2git tags are where they belongsvn2git
, with git-svn
you will loose history eventuallysvn2git
you can also split one SVN repository into multiple Git repositories easilysvn2git
than with git-svn
There are many reasons why git-svn
is worse and the KDE svn2git
is superior. :-)