Hi Neil, You may want to look at this Ruby implementation for more ideas: http://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git/ I forked it from a project originally by James Coglan, but should be able to answer most questions about it. -- Kevin On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Neil Schemenauer <nas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a tool to do conversions from SVN to git using a SVN > dump. It's in early development but perhaps some people would be > interested in it: > > http://python.ca/nas/python/svn2git.py > > I would like to improve it so that it intelligently converts SVN > branches and tags into git branches (when possible). The basic idea > is to map SVN paths into git branches, e.g. trunk -> master, > branches/foo -> branch-foo, tags/bar -> tags-bar. Next, specific > SVN dump actions like: > > Node-path: branches/foo > Node-kind: dir > Node-action: add > Node-copyfrom-rev: 3 > Node-copyfrom-path: trunk > > need to be detected and the commit needs to performed with the > correct parent. One complication is that SVN can create a branch or > tag from anywhere, for example, the action > > Node-path: tags/bar > Node-kind: dir > Node-action: add > Node-copyfrom-rev: 3 > Node-copyfrom-path: trunk/subdir > > would create tags/bar based on revision 3 of trunk/subdir. There > doesn't seem to be a good way to convert that into git. I was > thinking that the tags-bar branch in that case would have no parent. > Would git still efficently pack that or would you end up with extra > blobs? > > Neil > -- > 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 > -- 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
