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I am trying to migrate an existing SVN repo to Github, I was successfull in migrating other svn repo to Github, but unable to do so with below. Below image shows the SVn url, and the repo. SVN Repo Structure

As per above image, DVAR-DA is trunk, and DVAR-DA-BRANCHES is branches. I am using below command, but all it deos is intialize a .git folder, and nothing else.

git svn clone http://vmdclsvnas501:18080/svn/rDVR --authors-file=authors.txt  --trunk=DVAR-DA --branches=DVAR-DA-BRANCHES --no-minimize-url

Can someone please help, what is the command, which can accept, DVAR-DA as trunk, DVAR-DA-BRANCHES as branches, with no tags, and it doesnt resolve the url to some other path either.

If it helps, my git config looks like below.

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = false
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    symlinks = false
    ignorecase = true
[svn-remote "svn"]
    url = http://vmdclsvnas501:18080/svn/rDVR
    fetch = DVAR-DA:refs/remotes/origin/trunk
    branches = DVAR-DA-BRANCHES/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[svn]
    authorsfile = C:/Fazil/Svn2Git_DvarDa/authors.txt
Romano
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This may sound like a simple solution, but have you considered pulling down the repositories from SVN to disk, then using git to add the folders/code to GIT. That way you are not trying to combine/integrate source control management systems, just getting files from one system and then uploading them to another? It may be simpler and avoid a whole lot of (potentially unnecessary) complications.

The downside of this approach is that the version history of who did what will be lost. But if you are re-establishing a new code base, I would suggest that this might not be a critical factor going forward, the (new) changes in git will be logged against a user.

Here is an article that may be of assistance.

Craig Gers
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  • The revision history is important for this migration, so i guess that wont be an option for me. But do you know of a way to do this. – Romano Nov 30 '20 at 15:17
  • Sorry I do not. But I would be interested in your solution when you get there. – Craig Gers Nov 30 '20 at 15:58