SVN to Git Migration

[kgleason]

In the middle of migrating from SVN to BitBucket (git). I'm struggling with speeds from the SVN server right now, and I'm wondering if something like this might be possible:

• svnadmin dump repo
• Import the SVN repo to my laptop
• git svn clone ....
• modify the .git/config to change the SVN URL back to the original server
• rebase to get new changes and keep in sync

I can't really think of a reason that it wouldn't work ....

[cofarrell · Accepted solution]

Hi Kirk,

You can definitely do that. I would recommend testing it on a small repository just to confirm, but I've personally done that and it works fine.

Cheers,

Charles

[kgleason]

I decided to just try -- didn't see any reason it wouldn't work. It is much faster to do the initial svn clone like this. Thanks!

[cofarrell]

Glad to hear it. I'm assuming you're runing git-svn? The other thing to look at is Subgit which is definitely faster (although doesn't handle all of the weird edge cases in badly formed SVN repositories)

http://subgit.com/

[kgleason]

Oh man. I'm riddled with badly formed SVN repositories. It's been a bloody mess, but the end is in sight I think. In the end I'm losing some of my branch history, but it is what it is.

[cofarrell]

Yeah I've been there before, you just want it to be over (for me it was Clearcase).

Good luck. :)