Re: [git] SVN2Git migration issues...

[Stephan Herrmann <stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One thing I did recently for an svn repo with undesired directory tree:

$ svnadmin dump old-svn ... 2> dump.log > svndump1
$ sed -e "s#-path: bogus/path/prefix#-path: standard/path/prefix#" < 
svndump1 > svndump2 2> sed.log
$ # create a new svn repo
$ svnadmin load new-svn < svndump2

It appeared to be easier to massage the SVN upfront so that migration
tools would find everything in expected places.

YMMV,
Stephan

On 04/12/2012 09:06 PM, Eric Gwin wrote:
> Eike,
>
> Thanks! Awesome blog, and a pretty sweet repository too. They were the
> key to the light-bulb going off in my head.
>
> My problem it seems is not the tooling per-se, but rather the "almost
> standard" approach we had to our SVN repository to begin with. We
> misunderstood the "best-practices" in SVN and created trunk,
> branches/<branchname>/trunk, and tags/<tagname>. Using one tool (KDE's
> svn2git) I can translate our non-standard directory structure, but it
> leaves floating branches (because the branch root never gets converted),
> using the packaged svn2git tools I end up with cruft on the branch with
> the real data one level down under "trunk". Attempts to "rename the
> branch" once in git don't work - obviously they are no longer simply
> high-level directories. So it looks like a truly successful migration
> will need my semi-manual approach after all - which would probably be
> too costly for a timely conversion.
>
> Though I am still looking at other tooling options.
>
> -Eric
>
> On 04/04/2012 10:31 AM, Eike Stepper wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Stefan Winkler has done a great job when migrating our CDO repository
> > to Git. He's explained it in detail:
> > http://www.winklerweb.net/index.php/blog/4-eclipse/16-migrating-the-cdo-svn-repository-to-git
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > /Eike
> >
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