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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 ==
<li> Importing your SVN history into Git
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<li> 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 the 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 gitorious.org which was bought out by gitlab. 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