Unable to convert svn repository (without trunk) to git

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skerit picture skerit · Jun 22, 2012 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I'm trying to convert my svn repo to git, but I'm not having much success. The repository in question does not have anything like a "trunk". The layout is the following:

/home/svn/
      |--- /project1/
      |--- /project2/
      |--- /repos/project3/

And underneath those project folders are the files. No trunk, no branches, no nothing special. At the time that was all I needed, and now it's biting me in the ass.

I'm following this guide: http://john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git

When I run this command:

git svn clone svn+ssh://[email protected]/home/svn/repos/kiflea --no-metadata -A authors-transform.txt --stdlayout ~/kiflea

It says it has created an empty git repository... But I don't really want it to be empty.

I also have no idea what the following commands should look like, since my repository has a different layout.

Commands like git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/trunk or git config remote.bare.push 'refs/remotes/*:refs/heads/*'

Answer

Dmitry Pavlenko picture Dmitry Pavlenko · Jun 25, 2012

Just remove --stdlayout option. It means trunk/branches/tags structure.

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