Re: [mh] Migrating SVN to GIT

[H P. <hp...@gm...>]

That makes sense. I'm running an old fedora core 5 os, so i tracked
down the git rpms and will give this a try.

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On 2013-03-23, at 11:27 PM, Michael Stovenour <mi...@st...> wrote:

> On Mar 23, 2013 7:32 PM hp wrote,
>>
>> Sorry if I missed this somewhere along the way. I've been a long time SVN user, and with
>> all development moving over to GIT, I'd like to move my installation over to the new
>> world. My local SVN checkout is mostly stock, with a number of files that I've
>> customized for my particular setup.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with git, and don't want to manually reconcile -- is there a simple
>> method to take my installation root and connect it to git?
>
> I have a similar situation.  An SVN controlled directory with some local changes I made a
> long time ago.  When I wanted to move to git I only had a few changes so I recorded the
> diffs against the SVN repository then manually patched the git tree.  If you have a lot of
> changes you could try saving the svn diff in patch format; then using patch to add the
> changes into git.
>
> This is approximately what I did:
> 1) Run svn diff and capture all the output
> 2) Create the git repository in a new directory path
> 3) Manually edit the files from 1) or use patch
> 4) git stage / add
> 5) git commit
>
>