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--- docs:git:converting_an_svn_project_to_git [2010/09/20 11:07] – billh
+++ docs:git:converting_an_svn_project_to_git [2013/10/13 11:31] (current) – [set up svn to git user mappings] billh
@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 ===== set up svn to git user mappings =====
-  - create a text file somewhere (~/Desktop/users.txt) to map the svn users to git users<code>
+  - create a text file somewhere (~/.git-svn-users) to map the svn users to git users<code>
 jdoe = John Doe <jdoe@example.com>
 </code>
   - alter your global config file (~/.gitconfig) to use this user mappings file<code>
-git config --global svn.authorsfile ~/Desktop/users.txt
+git config --global svn.authorsfile ~/.git-svn-users
 </code>
@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 git svn clone svn://repo/path/to/myproject myproject_tmp --no-metadata
 </code>
+    * UPDATE - it seems as if the error below could be related to Tortoise and/or the TortoiseSVN cache running at the same time (we are writing these conversions directly into an svn working copy)
     * if you get an error like the following, just ctrl-c the operation, delete the temporary directory, and try it again<code>
 20592274 [main] perl 3584 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygserf-0-0.dll to same address as parent: 0xA80000 != 0x1390000
@@ Line 29: / Line 30: @@
 </code>
   - (optional) compare your current svn working copy with the final git working copy, then remove the project from svn
+If you are lucky (no errors), steps 1-5 can be automated with a simple bash loop:<code bash>
+for file in {project1,project2,project3}
+do
+        git svn clone file:///path/to/svn/repo/project/${file} ${file}_tmp --no-metadata \
+        && git clone --bare ${file}_tmp /path/to/git/shares/${file}.git \
+        && rm -Rf ${file}_tmp/ \
+        && git clone /path/to/git/shares/${file}.git/
+done
+</code>
 ===== old method =====