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vonigo
vonigo

Reputation: 19

can i clone my project source from svn repository to Git repository

SVN repository in: svn://server/myPath/svn/repos

Git repository in: git://server/myPath/git/repos

I'm trying to clone the svn project so I used this command: git svn clone svn://zone.spip.org/spip-zone gitzone

and I got a strange error message: error: git-svn died of signal 6

Upvotes: 0

Views: 112

Answers (3)

JohnNY
JohnNY

Reputation: 549

If you want to clone your old SVN repo and then move it into git I did it the following why.

git svn clone svn://server/myPath/svn/repos/trunk myproject.git

or 

git svn clone -s svn://server/myPath/svn/repos myproject.git

then

cd myproject.git

I did NOT want the history so I then removed the git folder

rm -rf .git/

then

git init
git add .
git commit -a
git remote add origin git@git:<project>.git
git push -u origin master

and your now done and ready to use it as git

Upvotes: 0

vonbrand
vonbrand

Reputation: 11791

As @JohnNY's answer says, you can do git svn clone, and later keep up with the SVN repo by git svn rebase. Do read the git svn documentation, there are several useful subcommands (and important caveats!) when interacting with SVN. git svn clone is slow as molasses (yes, a modest size repository can well take more than a day!); if several people need access, clone once and distribute e.g. tarballs of the cloned repository. Or ditch SVN. Just sayin'.

Upvotes: 0

JohnNY
JohnNY

Reputation: 549

If you are going to keep the code in SVN why don't you just

git svn clone svn://server/myPath/svn/repos

Upvotes: 2

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