I am in the need of converting a local SVN repository to GIT. I know how to convert a remote SVN repository to git, however, I only have the local repositories; they are no longer hosted. How would I go about converting a local SVN repo to git?
What I tried was this:
git svn clone -s file://data/svn/repo/ /data/git/repo.git
Error was:
E: 'trunk' is not a complete URL and a separate URL is not specified
Figured it out...
I needed an extra / after file:// so that it started at the root of the filesystem. Darn it!
Final command worked:
git svn clone -s file:///data/svn/repo/ /data/git/repo.git
Another option is to use SubGit
$ subgit install /data/svn/repo/ The difference is that is also converts ignores, tags, EOLs-related settings, and the Git created is automatically kept in sync with the SVN repository. To break synchronization run
$ subgit uninstall /data/svn/repo The resulting repository will br
