I am trying to do a git svn clone of a very large SVN repo. I have done earlier migrations using git svn clone
with full branching, tags, and history maintained and all have gone well. But this time the script after running for quite some time throws an error:
libsvn: Out of memory - terminating application.18 [main] perl 13884 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to perl.exe.stackdump
I researched everywhere but couldn't find anything related to this. If somebody has encountered similar error I would appreciate any suggestions.
git-svn
is not the right tool for one-time conversions of repositories. It is a great tool if you want to use Git as frontend for an existing SVN server, but for one-time conversions you should not use git-svn
, but svn2git
which is much more suited for this use-case and should not suffer from OOM error.
There are pleny tools called svn2git
, the probably best one is the KDE one from https://github.com/svn-all-fast-export/svn2git . I strongly recommend using that svn2git
tool. It is the best I know available out there and it is very flexible in what you can do with its rules files.
If you are not 100% about the history of your repository, svneverever
from http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=763 is a great tool to investigate the history of an SVN repository when migrating it to Git.
Even though git-svn
(or the wrong svn2git
in your case) is easier to start with, here are some further reasons why using the KDE svn2git
instead of git-svn
is superior, besides its flexibility:
svn2git
(if the correct one is used), this is especially the case for more complex histories with branches and merges and so ongit-svn
the tags contain an extra empty commit which also makes them not part of the branches, so a normal fetch
will not get them until you give --tags
to the command as by default only tags pointing to fetched branches are fetched also. With the proper svn2git tags are where they belongsvn2git
, with git-svn
you will loose history eventuallysvn2git
you can also split one SVN repository into multiple Git repositories easilysvn2git
than with git-svn
There are many reasons why git-svn
is worse and the KDE svn2git
is superior. :-)
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