====== importing an svn repository ======

===== using git while keeping an svn repo intact =====
  - create a text file somewhere (~/Desktop/users.txt) to map the svn users to git users<code>
jdoe = John Doe <jdoe@example.com>
</code>
  - create a project directory, and change to it<code>
mkdir myproject.git
cd myproject.git
</code>
  - initialize an empty git repository<code>
git svn init -s http://host/path/to/your/svn/repo/project/trunk --no-metadata
</code>
    * note the -s flag sets the default svn structure for /branches /tags /trunk; if this isn't how your repo is set up, you can use the -T -b -t flags
  - set up the user file for mapping<code>
git config svn.authorsfile ~/Desktop/users.txt
</code>
  - import the svn repository<code>
git svn fetch
</code>
  - sync with svn (like running svn update)<code>
git svn rebase
</code>
  - use the master branch to push to svn, and create git only branches for your local development
  - when you have a commit on the master branch ready to push to svn, do this<code>
git svn dcommit
</code>
  - since it takes so long to pull full svn history into a git repo, you may want to do this once and then set up a git repo that others can clone, if other users want to use git on a large project

===== See Also =====
  * [[converting an svn project to git]]

===== External Links =====
  * http://www.simplisticcomplexity.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-to-a-git-repository/