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
```
jdoe = John Doe <jdoe@example.com>
```
create a project directory, and change to it
```
mkdir myproject.git
cd myproject.git
```
initialize an empty git repository
```
git svn init -s http://host/path/to/your/svn/repo/project/trunk --no-metadata
```
- 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

git config svn.authorsfile ~/Desktop/users.txt

import the svn repository
```
git svn fetch
```
sync with svn (like running svn update)
```
git svn rebase
```
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
```
git svn dcommit
```
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