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 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/ --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
```

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