How was the conversion from svn to git done?

[Colin Guthrie]

> Git-svn is not awesome. Git-svn is a good hack that allows you to use git 
> while leaving svn as the main SCM.... because you can't do stuff like sharing 
> branches---which imho is one of the really great things about git. Anyway, his 
> question was about svn->git.

Hmm, strange. While I've used git-svn for that purpose too (mirroring 
the current state of an svn repo to create branches etc).

But I've also used it to pull in the whole history of the svn repo (e.g. 
every commit from 1 up to HEAD, not just a snapshot) from which I've 
subsequently removed the git-svn branch it maintains internally to leave 
me with a fully converted repository (e.g. no dcommit's back). I was 
able to specify the branches and tags paths and it got everything pretty 
much right.

So it worked pretty well for me, but sorry for suggesting the wrong 
thing in this case.

Col

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