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Aleks Ya
Aleks Ya

Reputation: 909

Import svn repo to git WITHOUT history

I need to import svn repo (trunk, branches, tags) to new empty git repo WITHOUT history. Svn history is very large, because many branches and tags exist.

Svn's trunk must get into git's master. Svn's branches must get into git's branches. And svn's tags must get into git's tags. All without history.

This command will import with history:

git svn clone http://server.ru/myrepo/ --stdlayout --preserve-empty-dirs .

Do branches and tags import by hands (checkout each from svn and commit to git) is too laborious.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8511

Answers (2)

Mykola Gurov
Mykola Gurov

Reputation: 8705

Advised -r HEAD seems to be getting the latest trunk revision only, but ignores branches and tags. Moreover, in my test it failed the execution of git-svn clone when last commit to repository was not to trunk.

What you could try is fetching trunk, branches and tags individually. First init empty git-svn repository:

git svn init http://server.ru/myrepo/ --stdlayout .

Then for each of trunk, tags, branches find their latest svn revision and do git-svn-fetch:

git svn fetch -r <svn revision>

To avoid manual labor, you could probably create a simple script that would parse the output of the svn ls -v <svn_path>/branches or svn ls --xml <svn_path>/tags.

Alternatively, if you already have git-svn-imported repository but want to strip the history, you could do for each branch/trunk: git checkout --orphan <branch> && git commit -m "as imported from svn" - that will produce a bunch of detached branches that you can further push to a new "clean" git repository.

Upvotes: 1

Lazy Badger
Lazy Badger

Reputation: 97345

Read git-svn man page carefully, pay attention to -r option and use -r HEAD on clone

Upvotes: 1

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