Posts tagged Git

I've received more feedback about my last night's post on gnarly svn to git migration than I've expected. Thanks to that feedback (and, mostly, Raffaele Salmaso for doing almost all the work and emailing the result to me) eazysvn is now on GitHub. The rest of this post will describe the conversion (and verification) in detail, because if I ever need to do this again, I do not want to start from scratch.

eazysvn lives in a Subversion repository. I want to bring it (kicking and screaming) into the 21st century and put it on Github. git-svn is unsuitable for the conversion, because in revision 50 I moved / to /trunk and added the traditional /tags and /branches. With git-svn I either get one third of the history that ignores everything before the layout switch, or I get directories named 'trunk', 'tags' and 'branches'.