How can I use BitBucket to collaborate on a private SVN repository with 3rd parties?

[Mark McD]

I have an internal SVN repository that I would like to allow external users to collaborate on privately. It seems like BitBucket is just the tool for this purpose, but I'm having trouble figuring out where to start.

I need to:

• Keep my internal SVN repository as authorative
• Keep the two repositories synchronised (i.e. update both BB -> SVN and SVN -> BB periodically)
• Only allow authorised users to see / change code in BitBucket

How can I use BitBucket to do the following?

1. Import my private SVN repository into BitBucket
2. Synchronise the two repos

Thanks!

[aMarcus · Accepted solution]

While Bitbucket doesn't support subversion, you can clone a subversion repository into Git locally using git-svn. Check out http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/git-svn-tutorial for a decent tutorial on how this could work. Once you have a local clone of your subversion repo, you could push it into Bitbucket periodically.

[Mark McD]

Thank you - that's exactly what I was after. At the time of writing I had already created Mercurial repositories (Git was announced three days earlier) and could not find such a guide.