Now that I have basically fallen for Git, I decided to finally move my Subversion repository over to Git (this way I can finally have a remote backup of it that I am comfortable with on Codaset).
The method for this was a lot more straightforward than I expected it to be. For the conversion tool, I used Nirvdrums fork of svn2git. It a feature complete version of the svn2git portion though the rest of it is still is development. Since it is a Ruby gem, getting it installed was a breeze. Just make sure that you have Ruby and rubygems installed.
1 2 3 4 5 | beacon:svnwork elubow$ sudo gem install svn2git --source http://gemcutter.org Successfully installed svn2git-1.3.1 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for svn2git-1.3.1... Installing RDoc documentation for svn2git-1.3.1... |
Then I created a authors.txt file to make sure the subversion committers got transferred over to Git cleanly. The file looked like this:
1 2 | beacon:svnwork elubow$ cat ../authors.txt elubow = Eric Lubow <myemail@here.com> |
Then I went to my Remote Code Storage Location of choice (Codaset) and created an empty repository for my personal files. I then cloned the repository to my local machine:
1 | beacon:svnwork elubow$ git clone git@codaset.com:elubow/personal-files.git |
Then I changed into the directory of the personal-files git repository and ran the following command:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | beacon:personal-files elubow$ svn2git file://localhost/Users/elubow/Library/Subversion/work --rootistrunk --authors ../authors.txt Checked out HEAD: file://localhost/Users/elubow/Library/Subversion r234 Note: moving to "trunk" which isnt a local branch If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b <new_branch_name> HEAD is now at e4708ee... Updated mail tools to latest versions Switched to a new branch "master" Counting objects: 668, done. Delta compression using 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (595/595), done. Writing objects: 100% (668/668), done. Total 668 (delta 280), reused 0 (delta 0) Removing duplicate objects: 100% (256/256), done. beacon:personal-files elubow$ ls -l total 0 ... Actual stuff here but removed for brevity ... |
The entire process took me about 15 minutes. Then I did a simple git push back to Codaset to save all my changes.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | beacon:personal-files elubow$ git push origin master Counting objects: 668, done. Delta compression using 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (315/315), done. Writing objects: 100% (668/668), 240.37 KiB, done. Total 668 (delta 280), reused 668 (delta 280) => Welcome to Codaset => Syncing Codaset... To git@codaset.com:elubow/personal-files.git * [new branch] master -> master [OK] |
