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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: working with a large repository and git svn
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:23:00 -0600
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Wesley J. Landaker wrote:

>   3) I love git-svn for working with Subversion repositories, but you could 
> consider a different tool, like tailor, if you can't make git-svn do what 
> you want. I have also heard talk (but I don't know the state of things) of 
> people working on a fast-import tool for SVN, so you could git-fast-export 
> and svn-fast-import in a big batch.

I think the state of the art is currently git2svn[1] + "svnrdump load".
This requires permission to change properties on the svn repo, just
like svnsync would.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/git2svn.git