Migrating svn repository to git


After googling I found this StackOverflow link. First, I needed to install git-svn module.
$ sudo apt-get install git-svn
Now we also need to map svn users to git users. we can get all svn users  ( skip if you already know them) with this command ( execute under svn project root )
$ svn log | grep '^r[0-9]' | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq
Once you get all users, create a users.txt file mapping svn users to git
user1 = first_name last_lame <email@address.com>
user2 = first_name last_lame <email@address.com>
Once you make sure all of your svn users are mapped to git, then execute
$ git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata -A users.txt svn://hostname/path dest_dir
It will start fetching svn repository into git. If you run into other problems, like
Author: (no author) not defined in users.txt file
then simply add following line to users.txt
 (no author) = first_name last_lame <email@address.com>
Note : If, due to this error, git svn command stops then simply update users.txt file and resume the migration 
$ git svn fetch

Now you can transfer your existing git repository to remote git url e.g. 
$ git push --mirror git@github.com:username/project.git



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