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{{obsolete|This document describes how to migrate an SVN repository to git. This is for historical reference.}}


== Init git repository ==
Create a temp work area. 

{{Cmd|mkdir proj-tmp}}

Init the git repository. If your svn repo does not have the standard trunk branches and tags dirs you shouldn't use the <code>--stdlayout</code>. You can also use <code>-T trunk -b branches -t tags</code>. 

{{Cmd|cd proj-tmp
git svn init <nowiki>svn://svn.alpinelinux.org/proj</nowiki> --stdlayout}}

== Create user mapping ==
Start with creating a users.txt file where the svn users are mapped to an email address for git. 

{{Cmd|<nowiki>echo "ncopa = Natanael Copa &lt;ncopa@example.com&gt;" &gt; users.txt</nowiki>}}

== Connect the user mapping ==
Connect the users.txt to the empty git repository so users are remapped. 

{{Cmd|git config svn.authorsfile ../users.txt}}

== Fetch SVN repository ==
This might take some time. 

{{Cmd|git fetch}}

== Upload the Git repository ==

Now we can create a bare repository and upload it to dev.alpinelinux.org/gitroot. 

{{Cmd|cd ..
git clone --bare proj-tmp proj.git
scp -r proj.git dev.alpinelinux.org:/~}}

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