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Migrating from SVN

Create Authors File

The authors files will translate svn usernames to email addresses for git.

  • PowerShell command to extract all authors from SVN:
    • Must have svn command line tools installed
    • This is an option when installing TortoiseSVN
    • If you are unsure whether you installed it or you know that you didn’t, you can just run the TortoiseSVN installer again and take care to include this option
    • Run the authors-export.ps1 script from within your svn directory
  • Edit authors.txt file to match the following format: 
    buchananw = Wesley Buchanan <wesley.buchanan@br-automation.com>
www-data = system <noreply@br-automation.com>

Clone Repository

For standard layout of trunk, branchs, tags:

git svn clone \[SVN repo URL\] --prefix=svn/ --no-metadata --authors-file "authors.txt" --stdlayout

For non-standard layout (B&R’s svn repository):

git svn init \[SVN repo URL\] --no-metadata
git svn fetch –authors-file "authors.txt"

Convert SVN ignore

git svn show-ignore > .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit --m ‘convert svn:ignore to .gitignore’

Push to New Git Repository

git remote add origin \[my new git repo\].git
git add .
git commit --m ‘migrating svn to git’
git push --u origin main

Sync New SVN Commits

git svn rebase
git push