Re: [git-users] Trying to convert svn repos to Git repos
My quick web search found http://julipedia.meroh.net/2012/02/converting-subversion-repository-to-git.html The only little problem is that git svn does not recognize Subversion tags as such and therefore converts them to Git branches instead of tags. Is that part of the problem? Or is it that svn2git won't accept / parse the trailing space? [It's not my area of expertise...] Philip - Original Message - From: waas.nett To: git-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 8:10 PM Subject: [git-users] Trying to convert svn repos to Git repos Hi there I have started recently to use Git. Since I have been using svn for a couple of year I would like to convert those svn repos including their history to Git repos. I have converted already some repos, which is certainly time-consuming, but it seems to work. Unfortunately, I have now one svn repos which I cannot convert. Obviously I had created by accident a tags folder with an additional blank at the end. I never noticed all those years. svn does not have an issue with this at all. However, when doing a git svn clone it stop there. Certainly I can rename the tag folder and remove the blank, but it will not help, because the rename is somewhere later in the history. The repos is on a server and I made a dump from it. The dump file can be edited and the space removed. I can create another svn repos locally and it seem to be created fine. The first issue I was running into was the newer format. i am using the newset subversion (format=4) and git svn does understand only format=2. So I was creating a svn repos with the older version and could load again the dump successfully to this repos. Unfortunately, I still have problems to to clone. Now it report an error Permission denied: Can't open '/tmp/report.tmp' : ... Anyone an idea what to try next? Thanks in advance -- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2890 / Virus Database: 2639/6048 - Release Date: 01/21/13 --
Re: [git-users] Trying to convert svn repos to Git repos
If the problem is that you type in something like: git svn clone svn.repo have you tried: git svn clone 'svn.repo ' put the repo name inside ' marks and put in the trailing blank. If you want a equivalent, but more esoteric command: git svc clone svn.repo\ with a space after the \ (aka back slash, technically a reverse solidus. FWIW the real name of the / is not slash but solidus. Weird the things I find.) On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:10 PM, waas.nett waas.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there I have started recently to use Git. Since I have been using svn for a couple of year I would like to convert those svn repos including their history to Git repos. I have converted already some repos, which is certainly time-consuming, but it seems to work. Unfortunately, I have now one svn repos which I cannot convert. Obviously I had created by accident a tags folder with an additional blank at the end. I never noticed all those years. svn does not have an issue with this at all. However, when doing a git svn clone it stop there. Certainly I can rename the tag folder and remove the blank, but it will not help, because the rename is somewhere later in the history. The repos is on a server and I made a dump from it. The dump file can be edited and the space removed. I can create another svn repos locally and it seem to be created fine. The first issue I was running into was the newer format. i am using the newset subversion (format=4) and git svn does understand only format=2. So I was creating a svn repos with the older version and could load again the dump successfully to this repos. Unfortunately, I still have problems to to clone. Now it report an error Permission denied: Can't open '/tmp/report.tmp' : ... Anyone an idea what to try next? Thanks in advance -- -- Maranatha! John McKown --
