I'd like to copy svn project to git with history

Question

I would like to copy svn project to git project on linux environment. Currently I'm having my project in svn repo with branches, tags and trunk folder structure. I need to copy everything to git repo including history. I thought of using svn2git but do not have a good idea on the steps that I need to follow.

Answer 1

svn2git is a great tool. I'm using it to migrate over a large project. You need to define rules for each branch/tags. Wild cards are your friend.

trunk/A/B
branches/Foo/A/B
branches/Bar/A/B
tags/Baz/A/B
tags/Foobar/A/B

Here are some sample rules. NOTE: Rules are run in order.

match /trunk/
  branch master
end match

match /branches/([^/]+)/
  branch \1
end match 

match /tags/([^/]+)/
  branch refs/tags/\1
  annotated true
end match

This will result in the following branches: master, Foo, and Bar and tags Baz and Foobar.

Something that took me a while to figure out is if you need to dig deeper into the path you need to use the recurse function. For example if a commit copies all of branches into tags, the path would just be /branches/. You need to rule to go down a directory.

match /branches/$
  action recurse
end match

Another great tool to use before writing your rules is svneverever. It will help you write your rules.

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/before-svn2git-you-want-to-run-svneverever/