Converting SVN to git repository

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Jun 27 03:29:37 UTC 2017


On domingo, 25 de junho de 2017 06:41:06 PDT John Lawlor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am converting projects with 17 years of history to git. I did a trial
> conversion back in February, and it worked fine -- using svn2git. I am just
> wondering can I build on top of that conversion by just getting svn2git to
> apply commits from February until today, instead of converting whole
> projects again?
> 
> Say if I clone the repo with history up to February, and then get svn2git
> to start applying changes to that repo, rather than starting from scratch.

The tool was designed to allow resuming, but I recommend doing a full 
conversion when you're going to do it for good. Just in case.

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