djwonk

There are quite a few blog posts about how to import a Subversion repository into git.  Simplistic Complexity’s write-up is the best I’ve seen on how to do it cleanly.  Here is a quick summary of the steps:

mkdir temp_repos; cd temp_repos

# init the git repository, do not import quite yet
git-svn init svn://repository_goes_here

# specify mapping from svn users to git users
git config svn.authorsfile ~/authors.txt

# start the import, it may take a while
git-svn fetch

cd ..; git clone temp_repos clean_repos
rm -rf temp_repos; cd clean_repos
# enjoy working with git

If you would like more detail, especially about the mapping of users with authors.txt, please refer to the original article.