从SVN导入到Git时保留移动文件的历史记录

Question

A question to Git gurus. I am facing the following problem: I need to import a project to Git from SVN with history. The way I do it: git svn clone " http://server/trunk/path/to/my/project ". The history is being imported fine...till the point that particular file was moved to its current location from another location. Of course if I use url which is higher, eg includes both old and new location, I can track it using history of the old parent folder. The problem is that I can't import the project with old file location as it is not in my ownership. Is there a way to retain the history before the point a file was moved while importing only the project with file's new location?

Answer 1

For a one time import, you could give SubGit a try .

As show in this thread :

SubGit imports/synchronizes only those branches and tags specified on SVN settings page.

So, in order to keep the history for all the previous locations of your trunk folder, please include all those locations into trunk & branches options just as follows:

Subversion URL = http://host/svn/repo

Trunk = dir3:refs/heads/master

Branches = dir2:refs/heads/old_master; dir1:refs/heads/even_older_master; branches/*:refs/heads/*

...

With these settings specified SubGit should be able to join the history for all three locations.

That would assume the "other location" is in the same repository though.