How can I migrate a git-svn codebase to another device?

Question

We've been assigned new laptops at work and I'm looking to move my git-svn repository to the new device. The svn server URL or my credentials haven't changed.

The problem is git svn rebase doesn't want to work any more - it just hangs, and git svn fetch fetches everything from revision one. It's an old codebase of over 70k commits and re-importing everything takes at least 3 working days (doing about 20k commits a day), as I've had to rediscover.

I'm aware of shallow cloning but I'm interested in migrating the existing local repository.

Things I've tried:

• Copy the git repo from the old laptop to the new laptop
• git clone the old git repo from the new laptop

In both cases I made sure my global git config is the same and that svn-remote points to the correct URL.

Clarification :

• The code is hosted on svn. I use git-svn privately
• I'm looking to migrate my personal copy of the codebase, not the svn repository

Answer 1

Technically you should simply be able to copy your working directory together with the .git subdirectory from your old workstation to the new one. I used this as a workaround for slow git-svn copy on windows machines earlier.