This is the svn trunk
path:
http://svn/path/libs/trunk/mylib
And here is the branch
path:
http://svn/path/libs/branches/mylib/mylib-feature-branch
I need to migrate only the branch to git, but I also need its trunk history before the branch was created.
The following command fetches only the branch history:
git svn clone http://svn/path/libs/branches/mylib/mylib-feature-branch
I have read this answer, but could not figure out how I should change the git svn clone
command to have the full history of the branch.
git-svn
is not the right tool for one-time conversions of repositories or repository parts. It is a great tool if you want to use Git as frontend for an existing SVN server, but for one-time conversions you should not use git-svn
, but svn2git
which is much more suited for this use-case.
There are pleny tools called svn2git
, the probably best one is the KDE one from https://github.com/svn-all-fast-export/svn2git. I strongly recommend using that svn2git
tool. It is the best I know available out there and it is very flexible in what you can do with its rules files.
You will easily be able to set up the rules file so that exactly your branch and its history will get migrated.
If you are not 100% about the history of your repository, svneverever
from http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=763 is a great tool to investigate the history of an SVN repository when migrating it to Git.
Even though git-svn is easier to start with, here are some further reasons why using the KDE svn2git
instead of git-svn
is superior, besides its flexibility:
svn2git
(if the correct one is used), this is especially the case for more complex histories with branches and merges and so ongit-svn
the tags contain an extra empty commit which also makes them not part of the branches, so a normal fetch
will not get them until you give --tags
to the command as by default only tags pointing to fetched branches are fetched also. With the proper svn2git tags are where they belongsvn2git
, with git-svn
you will loose history eventuallysvn2git
you can also split one SVN repository into multiple Git repositories easilysvn2git
than with git-svn
There are many reasons why git-svn
is worse and the KDE svn2git
is superior. :-)