[jboss-dev] Porting SVN Projects to Git

[Galder Zamarreño]

U should blog/twiiter about this :)

On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:

> Today I look a relatively simple project and migrated it from SVN to 
> Git.  There's a bunch of resources scattered about involving the "best" 
> way to do this, but thought I'd share my experience as it appears to 
> have been a success.  If anyone's got a better process I'm interested, too.
> 
> Note: I'm on Fedora13, so some commands here are gonna be env-specific.
> 
> # Obtain dependencies which run or are run from the svn2git Ruby script
> $> sudo yum -y install git-core git-svn ruby rubygems
> (Original instructions used apt-get, so I assume Debianey/Ubuntooey 
> distros support this command too)
> 
> # Install the svn2git gem (script)
> $> sudo gem install svn2git --source http://gemcutter.org
> 
> # Make a new directory to contain your new local Git repo and switch into it
> $> mkdir jboss-ejb3-async; cd jboss-ejb3-async
> 
> # (Optional) Create a mapping file from SVN usernames to Git Authors
> $> svn log | grep -E "r[0-9]+ \| [a-z]+ \|" | awk '{print $3}' | sort | 
> uniq # Prints out all authors for the current SVN working copy
> File format should be:
> SVNUsername = Full Name <email.address.org>
> ALRubinger = Andrew Lee Rubinger <alr at jboss.org>
> 
> # Use svn2git to extract out the SVN commit information, passing along 
> parameters to note trunk, tags, branches locations
> $> svn2git https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/ --trunk 
> projects/ejb3/components/async/trunk --tags 
> projects/ejb3/components/async/tags --nobranches --authors ../authors.txt
> (More info on the switches at: http://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git)
> 
> # Create a remote repo somewhere (I did GitHub and used the web console 
> for that)
> 
> # Add a remote "origin" to the local repo so we can push to it
> $> git remote add origin git at github.com:ALRubinger/jboss-ejb3-async.git
> 
> # Push all contents including the tags to the origin at branch master
> $> git push --tags origin master
> 
> S,
> ALR
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache