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See [my detailed blog post](http://blog.woobling.org/2009/06/git-svn-abandon.html) for a how-to.

In brief:

1. git svn clone your repo, preferably using Sam Vilain's [svn-merge-attrs branch](http://github.com/samv/git/tree/svn-merge-attrs), 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).
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`git-svn-id:` and svk message pollution is cleaned up


adding grafts entries:

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.

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