From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Schemenauer Subject: State of the art svn to git conversion? Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:50:16 -0600 Message-ID: <20080407185016.GA834@arctrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 07 20:51:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JiwQo-0001xU-6R for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:51:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751927AbYDGSuS (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:50:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751896AbYDGSuS (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:50:18 -0400 Received: from vapor.arctrix.com ([66.220.1.99]:37964 "HELO vapor.arctrix.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751814AbYDGSuR (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:50:17 -0400 Received: (qmail 918 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Apr 2008 18:50:16 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9B3B 987B F40E 9320 0619 0A17 A366 302E B1DE 86CE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I'm attempting to convert a fairly large SVN repository to git (about 60000 revisions, quite a few branches and tags). It looks like git-svn is the main tool for this purpose but it is very slow. The initial fetch takes many hours to finish (yes, I'm working locally) and seems to periodically die after a few thousand revisions. Is git-svn really the best tool? Ideally I would like to feed an svn dump into some tool and end up with a git repository. If I would feed incremental dumps into tool after the initial conversion that would be even better. Neil