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Robo
Robo

Reputation: 1

Migrating to GitHub from SVN (VisualSVN Server) keeping SVN version numbers

Ok so we are trying to move from SVN (VisualSVN Server in house) to GitHub and we want to keep version numbers, all the posts so far I have tried to follow don't seem to find the version numbers. And I end up getting this 'Unable to determine upstream SVN information from HEAD history'

So we used the GitHub import utility to bring over the SVN repository but everything I have tried after that doesn't seem to work to allow us to access version numbering from SVN.

If anyone can help me please, I am not really great in either SVN or GitHub and all advice would be very welcome.

What do you mean by "we want to keep version numbers"? - The version info from SVN (revision numbers I think they call it) we need for historic records (we are getting rid of SVN) it would be great to see them as a message in the commit comments for historic SVN items. I may be using the wrong terms sorry.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 464

Answers (1)

Lazy Badger
Lazy Badger

Reputation: 97305

I am not really great in either SVN or GitHub

Hire anybody proficient in at least one theme: SVN or Git (Github is service on top of Git and it's irrelevant to task "repository migration")

Another way is:

  • read and understand git-svn topic from Git Book
  • convert SVN-repository to local Git-repo
  • using fresh Git, discover and use find-rev subcommand in git-svn for your task:

When given an SVN revision number of the form rN, returns the corresponding Git commit hash (this can optionally be followed by a tree-ish to specify which branch should be searched). When given a tree-ish, returns the corresponding SVN revision number.

Upvotes: 1

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