How do I convert my SVN repository to Git while preserving branches?

Question

Some help please. This doesn't seem to do it for me:

git svn clone --stdlayout --authors-file=../authors.txt file:///home/path

Answer 1

The simplest way is to use svn2git , a ruby script that handles all of that for you. I've used it over the past 8 months or so to convert several quite large subversion repos to git; it's by far the best tool I've found for the job.

Answer 2

有一个非常完善的一套可用指令在这里 ，包括如何SVN“标签”和“分支”转化为实际的Git标签和分支。

Answer 3

I would try to clone your SVN with SmartGit : it translates such SVN concepts like branches, tags, ignores, EOLs to the corresponding Git concepts.

Maybe I will find an easy Howto....

Answer 4

I have had great luck with specifying the branches and tags explicitly:

git svn clone http://server.com/svn/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags project
git remote add origin git@server.com:project
git push origin master