Convert SVN Subdirectory to Git

Question

I would like to ditch SVN for Git. My current SVN repository setup has projects under trunk (/trunk/projecta, /trunk/projectb, etc. with tags and branches at /tags/projecta-1.0, etc.). I would like to create distinct Git repos for each of these projects by pulling them out of SVN using git-svn.

I've successfully pulled the entire SVN repo down to a local Git repo but all of the projects exist in the same Git repo now. Is it possible to pull them apart at this point?

Answer 1

This is tricky. To get, e.g., the tags for a project, all its tags have to be under a common directory, but your structure has all projects sharing a single tag director.

Perhaps you could move /tags/projecta-1.0 to /tags/projecta/1.0 and so on, and then import projects into git one at a time:

git-svn init --trunk=trunk/projecta --tags=tags/projecta ...

I don't know if this will work as expected, so please do this on a copy of your repository, not the original!