Chris Riddoch <riddochc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, folks. This is probably targeted at Eric Wong, but any assistance In that case, feel free to Cc: me so I see it sooner :) > is welcome. I asked on #git, and decideded that a larger audience > might be interested in this question, and whatever its answer turns > out to be. > > I've been working on a project, and tracking its history in git. Due > to lack of windows support, and windows-only developers joining my > project, my higher-ups decided that we needed to use SVN. I expect > I'll probably use git-svn, myself, but I'm faced with a task: > > I need to use the contents of my git repository, which is *very* > linear with only one branch, to fill in some history for a new, empty > svn repository. > > My current steps, which isn't complete (identifiers cleaned out to > protect... well, me.) > > $ git svn init svn://server/project project > $ cd project > project$ git svn fetch > Fetching git-svn > r0 = df2d1a798e85c75b9abbfd22fe06ff651a8fa9dd With completely linear history, you can probably use grafts and add df2d1a798e85c75b9abbfd22fe06ff651a8fa9dd as a parent of your original, initial commit. Afterwards, running dcommit should just work. (I've never tried this, though). > project$ git pull /git/project > warning: no common commits > remote: Generating pack... > remote: Done counting 850 objects. > remote: Deltifying 850 objects. > ... > > project$ git log > commit <sha> > Merge: <sha>... <sha>... > Author: Chris Riddoch > Date: Fri Mar 16 15:13:58 2007 -0600 > > Merge /git/project/ > > commit <sha> > Author: (no author) <(no author)@641bd306-a92b-0410-b27c-7dcbb122c54d> > Date: Wed Mar 14 20:41:10 2007 +0000 > > git-svn-id: svn://server/project@0 641bd306-a92b-0410-b27c-7dcbb122c54d > > commit <sha> > Author: Chris Riddoch > Date: Tue Mar 13 13:54:21 2007 -0600 > > Most recent commit > > <skipping a bunch> > > commit <sha> > Author: Chris Riddoch > Date: Thu Feb 1 10:55:42 2007 -0700 > > Initial commit of project > > > > Um... now what? Can someone walk me through this? That will probably force you to discard your git-only history in SVN or have you duplicate history, neither is what you want. If it's not too late; I recommend you start over with the above instructions. -- Eric Wong - 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