Re: [git] SVN2Git migration issues...

[Eric Gwin <eric.gwin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eike,

Thanks! Awesome blog, and a pretty sweet repository too. They were the key to the light-bulb going off in my head.

My problem it seems is not the tooling per-se, but rather the "almost standard" approach we had to our SVN repository to begin with. We misunderstood the "best-practices" in SVN and created trunk, branches/<branchname>/trunk, and tags/<tagname>.  Using one tool (KDE's svn2git) I can translate our non-standard directory structure, but it leaves floating branches (because the branch root never gets converted), using the packaged svn2git tools I end up with cruft on the branch with the real data one level down under "trunk". Attempts to "rename the branch" once in git don't work - obviously they are no longer simply high-level directories. So it looks like a truly successful migration will need my semi-manual approach after all - which would probably be too costly for a timely conversion.

Though I am still looking at other tooling options.

-Eric

On 04/04/2012 10:31 AM, Eike Stepper wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Stefan Winkler has done a great job when migrating our CDO repository to Git. He's explained it in detail: http://www.winklerweb.net/index.php/blog/4-eclipse/16-migrating-the-cdo-svn-repository-to-git
>
> Cheers
> /Eike
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