Converting From Subversion To Git

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.

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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:

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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.

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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]

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