Installation:

Place these scripts anywhere in $PATH (e.g. create symlinks in /usr/local/bin) and make sure they are executable, just like any other script. The git command will know how to find them.

Usage:

See my detailed blog post for a how-to.

In brief:

1. git svn clone your repo, preferably using Sam Vilain's svn-merge-attrs branch, using --prefix svn. This assumes standard layout.

2. inside the repo run git svn-abandon-fix-refs

3. create .git/info/grafts for merge commits (might not be necessary with the svn-merge-attrs branch).

4. run git svn-abandon-cleanup

The resulting repository should have only refs/heads/* and tags. All svn tags are recreated as annotated tags.

git-svn-id: and svk message pollution is cleaned up.

When you have a merge commit that is not recognized as such, the grafts file can be used to add additional parents, preserving history information.