How do I migrate a flat svn repo to git repo

Question

I have a flat svn repository which looks like:

my_repo/
├── file1.c
├── file2.c
├── file3.c
└── README

This repo has no branches, or tags and all I am trying to do is convert it to a git repository and maintain the commit history.

I have tried:

git svn clone --trunk=/ -A users.txt svn+ssh://[email protected]/projects/my_repo dest_dir

Which I assumed would work, however, when I navigate into dest_dir and perform git svn fetch, it doesn't seem to fetch anything. Using git log yields:

fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'

If I use svn checkout svn+ssh://[email protected]/projects/my_repo it returns:

A    my_repo/file1.c
A    my_repo/file2.c
A    my_repo/file3.c
A    my_repo/README
Checked out revision 57.

So the repository is alive and accessible.

I have tried various tools including subgit which was giving me this error: svn: E170003: 'stat' not implemented and I think this is because the server hosting the repository is using an old version of subversion. I have no control over the server so cannot perform an update.

I have also tried using the svn2git, using the command

svn2git svn+ssh://[email protected]/projects/my_repo --rootistrunk -authors users.txt --verbose

but this was giving me another error:

E: 'svn+ssh:/[email protected]/projects/my_repo' is not a complete URL and a separate URL is not specified command failed

This stumped me, and I've no idea why it's not working. Basically I was wondering how I go about turning my svn repo into a git repo while maintaining the history. Hope someone can help me out, or point me in the right direction. Never realised it would be so difficult to transfer this simple repo to git!

Thanks

Answer 1

The problem is with svn2git's --rootistrunk argument. Instead of that, try this:

svn2git svn+ssh://[email protected]/projects/my_repo --trunk / --notags --nobranches --authors users.txt --verbose