Import Subversion repository into Git

Question

I have an existing SVN repository at http://svn.donnael.com/lilypond/SousaFairest . Out of curiosity, I created a repository at https://github.com/SarekOfVulcan/donnael-Scores as well, and added some files to it. Can I now take the Sousa folder and import that into the GitHub directory, maintaining the change history, or is that more trouble than it's worth? (I have a decent understanding of svn, but git is brand new to me.)

Answer 1

I believe that would be possible. There may be a way to do it all from one local repo, but I'm pretty confident that this would work. Assuming you're starting from scratch with no local repos:

• git svn clone your SVN repo to a local git repo (hereafter known as svn-repo)
• git clone your github repo to a local repo (known as github-repo)
• In github-repo, git remote add svn-repo <url> using a local file URL
• git fetch svn-repo
• git merge svn-repo/master to merge the master branch of svn-repo into github-repo
• Then just push to github

Answer 2

There are many tutorials online about importing subversion into git. As far as it being a hassle, it's only (3-4 commands). It's worth doing, unless you don't want to keep your svn repo's history.

Here's githubs guide to pulling it off