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== Simple ==
For simple, small migrations, follow the process described by CollabNet in [http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/migrating-subversion-repositories-to-git their blog] (and elsewhere). For anything else, don't do it! git svn clone is not a migration tool <ref>https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools</ref>.
== Summary ==
A summary of the steps for migrating your version control system to git from subversion
<li> Importing your SVN history into Git
<ol>
<li> Using svn2git If you can migrate using <code>git svn clone</code><ref>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-svn</ref> which is a tool providing a bi-directional conduit of changesets between subversion and git, then good for you! Your project is small and uncomplicated. For larger, more complicated migrations, this tool is not suited for the job. It will take too long, and simply will fail to produce a git repository. I don't understand why Atlassian recommends this approach in their "tutorial" without telling you that it will fail; or at least providing the major caveats. Still, you can read up on a remote serverthe simplistic scenario <ref>https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/migrating-overview</ref>,<ref>https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/migrating-convert/</ref> <li> Using svn2git <ref>There are 2 pieces of software by the same name. The one you want was [https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git#Getting_the_tools created by the KDE team]. You could use the [https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git ruby gem by nirvdrum], but it's going to be slower. Unfortunately the KDE code lived on buildgitorious.org which was bought out by gitlab.eclipse They say they're going to put the code up on archive.org, but it's not there and I wouldn't hold my breath. The good news is that the code can be found and is also referred to as [https://github.com/svn-all-fast-export/svn2git svn-all-fast-export]</ref> <li>Using [[reposurgeon]] - a tool by Eric Raymond
</ol>
<li> Convert svn:ignore properties to .gitignore file (example of why you need to later delete empty commits which reflect properties not code changes)
<li>Verification
<source lang="bash">
mkdir -p /tmp/verify
cd /tmp/verify
for v in 2.0.0 2.1.0 2.2.0 ; do
svn co $v
done
# export git tags
cd /tmp/conv/myproj-git
for v in 2.0.0 2.1.0 2.2.0 ; do
git archive --format=tar --prefix myproj-$v/ v$v | gzip \
/tmp/verify/git/myproj-$v-git.tar.gz
done
cd /tmp/verify/git
for v in 2.0.0 2.1.0 2.2.0 ; do
tar xvzf myproj-$v-git.tar.gz
done
# compare them
diff -ur /tmp/verify /tmp/verify/git
</source>
<li>Build
<li> Service integrations
<ol>
<li>JIRA / Issue Tracker
<li>ReviewBoard / Code Review
<li>Jenkins / Build system
<li>SQA
<li>OpenGrok / Code indexing browser
</ol>
<li> Client and End User configurations
<ol>
<li> Update references in your literature, project documents, websites, systems, reference materials and procedure documents to reference the new systems. This step can be ameliorated if in the beginning you reference code in a generic way such as "code.example.com" where you can then link to various aspects and implementations of your code systems; rather than naming them specifically based on technology or implementation.
</ol>
== Post-processing ==
* Use the [https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ BFG Repo cleaner] to remove large files, passwords, unwanted paths
* clone it to reduce size <code>git clone file:///path/to/repo</code>
== Lessons Learned ==
* https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MovetoGit
* http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/migrating-from-subversion-to-git-lessons-learned/
* http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/switching-svn-repository-svn2git
== Caveats ==
Once you've established a git infrastructure for version control, git to git migrations are incredibly easy... at least for the core git repository functions. Just add another remote to push/pull. This means that if you wish to change your git infrastructure to use a different system, the work involved will mostly be about the extra features bundled with the system (e.g. web viewer, code review, etc.) and integrations.
== Combining git repos ==
You might desire to reorganize your code in the migration process. There are several tools which allow you to merge git repositories together.
* http://search.cpan.org/dist/Git-FastExport/script/git-stitch-repo git-stitch-repo] is made for linear repos
* This other one [http://search.cpan.org/~book/Git-FastExport-0.105/script/git-stitch-repo by the same name], authored by Philippe Bruhat (BooK) is nonetheless capable of [http://www.ifup.org/posts/the-right-tool-for-the-job-git-stitch-repo/ merging two (or more) repositories]
* This one, [https://github.com/robinst/git-merge-repos git-merge-repos] is interesting because it talks about taking multiple repositories with more or less the same branches or tags, and merging them at the tag
* [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/277029/combining-multiple-git-repositories This post on Stackoverflow about combining multiple git repositories] mentions git-stitch-repo, and also how it gained the capability to work with non-linear merge histories. It also explains how to do repo merges with git-filter-branch. Note that git-filter-branch requires you to rewrite your history (breaking SHA1 sums).
* The [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html subtree merge strategy page on kernel.org] shows you how to do this.
* https://westmarch.j5int.com/2014/06/splicing-git-repositories-together/ [https://github.com/j5int/jbosstools-gitmigration/blob/master/git_fast_filter/testcases/splice_repos.py Splice Repos] is a python script. It's more recent than some others and a better tool because it's based on fast-export/fast-import <ref>https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fast-import</ref>. It grew out of the [https://github.com/j5int/jbosstools-gitmigration JBossTools git migration] (which itself has some useful info on procedures).
* Also, the [[reposurgeon]] tool itself can assist you with the re-organization of your sources.
== Submodules ==
Sometimes, 'combining' your work with other work is best accomplished through '''[https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules submodules]'''. Git submodules are a way for you to store other repositories in directories of your project. This is most often used to handle 'vendor' code, or libraries. However, submodules can be used whenever you want to combine repositories, yet maintain them independently.
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