importing an svn repository

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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

To get in the right frame of mind, don't think of exporting your entire svn repository, but rather export project by project. Export the trunk of your projects and forget about the branches. If you need data from the branches, merge it first.

create a text file somewhere (~/Desktop/users.txt) to map the svn users to git users
```
jdoe = John Doe <jdoe@example.com>
```
create a temporary project directory, and change to it
```
mkdir myproject_tmp
cd myproject_tmp
```
initialize an empty git repository
```
git svn init http://host/path/to/your/svn/repo/project/trunk --no-metadata
```
- for some reason I've recently had trouble starting this process with git svn init, so I've been doing git svn clone instead. It looks like this:
```
git svn clone file:///cygdrive/h/svn/project/trunk myproject_tmp --no-metadata
```

set up the user file for mapping

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

import the svn repository
```
git svn fetch
```
change up one directory, and clone this newly created repository (this cleans up all svn stuff)
```
cd ..
git clone myproject_tmp myproject
```
the myproject_tmp directory can now be removed, and the origin remote
```
rm -Rf myproject_tmp
cd myproject
git remote rm origin
```

if you want to push this out to a shared repo, you can do it like this

cd /path/to/shared/dir
mkdir project.git
cd project.git
git init --bare --shared
cd /path/to/myproject
git push /path/to/shared/dir/myproject.git refs/heads/master
(you can push other refs if you want at this point, if they should be public)

(then I usually git clone from this shared repo for good measure to make sure it all works; your merge paths will work by default too)

you may also consider that although svn allows empty directories as part of the repo, git does not; we usually fix this by adding empty files named .emptydir in any directory that needs this

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

importing an svn repository

Example 1: using git while keeping an svn repo intact

Example 2: converting a project from svn to git

External Links

hartungdesign.net wiki