MIT-LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +== svn2git + ++svn2git+ is a tiny utility for migrating projects from Subversion to Git while keeping +the trunk, branches and tags where they should be. It uses git-svn to clone an svn repository +and does some clean-up to make sure branches and tags are imported in a meaningful way, and +that the code checked into master ends up being what's currently in your svn trunk rather +than whichever svn branch your last commit was in. + +=== Examples + +Say I have this code in svn: + + trunk + ... + branches + 1.x + 2.x + tags + 1.0.0 + 1.0.1 + 1.0.2 + 1.1.0 + 2.0.0 + +git-svn will go through the commit history to build a new git repo. It will import all branches +and tags as remote svn branches, whereas what you really want is git-native local branches and +git tag objects. So after importing this project I'll get: + + $ git branch + * master + $ git branch -a + * master + 1.x + 2.x + tags/1.0.0 + tags/1.0.1 + tags/1.0.2 + tags/1.1.0 + tags/2.0.0 + trunk + $ git tag -l + [ empty ] + +After svn2git is done with your project, you'll get this instead: + + $ git branch + * master + 1.x + 2.x + $ git tag -l + 1.0.0 + 1.0.1 + 1.0.2 + 1.1.0 + 2.0.0 + +Finally, it makes sure the HEAD of master is the same as the current trunk of the svn repo. + +=== Installation + +Make sure you have git installed, then install the gem: + + $ sudo apt-get install git-core git-svn + $ sudo gem install svn2git + +=== Usage + +To create a git repo from an existing svn repo: + + $ svn2git http://svn.yoursite.com/path/to/repo + +This will create a new directory called +repo+ containing the git version of the repository. +If you're not using the standard trunk/branches/tags layout, you can pass arguments to tell +git-svn what to look for: + + $ svn2git http://svn.yoursite.com/path/to/repo trunk=the_trunk tags=taggings + +=== GitHub integration + +When creating your new git repo, svn2git can push your new repo to github.com if you pass +in your username and project name. For example: + + $ svn2git http://svn.jcoglan.com/packr github=jcoglan/packr + +You need to make sure the project exists on github before running this, and make sure you +have your SSH key set up or this won't work. + README 635c13638a44dae2b01d893eb8b485713f62e714 James jcoglan@jcoglan-laptop.(none) http://github.com/jcoglan/svn2git/commit/ea4f836a3aef3b416ae4e52eb0dfb79eaf76fd13 ea4f836a3aef3b416ae4e52eb0dfb79eaf76fd13 2008-05-04T17:31:59-07:00 2008-05-04T17:31:59-07:00 Adding README and license information. fb74181f4b27102bd299caad3d2e47f64e88fa5b James jcoglan@jcoglan-laptop.(none)