Am 21.11.2011 08:02, schrieb Jonathan Nieder: > The section "CHECKLIST FOR SHRINKING A REPOSITORY" from the > git-filter-branch(1) manual page has some hints. In particular, "git > clone --no-hardlinks" still _copies_ all objects --- you probably > would want "git clone file://$(pwd)/repo-orig" to make sure the > ordinary transfer negotiation kicks in. > > It's very important that the documentation not be misleading, so if > you can point to places where the wording can be less confusing, that > would be very welcome. it would be fantastic if exactly this information is noted in the manual. For me it is not really clear what is the difference between a git clone with and without --no-hardlinks. I was now able to convert my svn repo to a git repo and split the new git repo in several different ones, including the complete history. Here a short summary for all how need to do the same. At first convert the svn into a git reposity: git svn clone file:///path/to/svn -A authors -s gitrepo.git To create the authors file, check the man page. To get a list of all files: git show --pretty="format:" --name-only startrev..endrev | sort | uniq Maybe you want to remove some branches from the repo because svn users used it in a completely wrong way: git branch -rd badbranch Now clone the repo and remove files from it you do not want anymore: git clone gitrepo.git tofilter.git cd tofilter.git git filter-branch -f --tree-filter 'rm -Rf file1 file2.bla dir1 \ projekt1/dir2' --prune-empty -- --all git gc cd .. Repeat this step for all combination you need. Now create a bare repository and enable some options to use it as a central repo: git clone --bare tofilter.git tofilter_bare.git cd tofilter_bare.git git config core.sharedRepository 1 git config receive.denyNonFastForwards true git gc cd .. Now you can copy the repo to the target server/directory and clone it from there. Bye Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html