[OT] Anyone w/ svn->git experience and advice?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:jeont0$1bkp$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> If --preserve-empty-dir isn't working, can't you add these directories 
> after you've cloned the repository?
>

I suppose it might be possible since git seems to be big on allowing history 
rewrites, but I know next-to-nothing about how to actually do it :/

(Doing anything fancy like that in git seems to require deep under-the-hood 
knowledge of git, and I'm more interested in just using the stupid 
thing...Argh...)

> BTW is a could page about git and svn: 
> http://www.viget.com/extend/effectively-using-git-with-subversion/
>

Thanks. That's nice, but it seems to just handwave-away the matter of 
missing directories. Doesn't address it.

> I managed to clone the semitwist repository using:
>
> git clone -s http://svn.dsource.org/projects/semitwist
>
> "-s" indicates a standard svn layout of the repository.
>

Does it still work if you give it --preserve-empty-dirs? (and yea, it seems 
to work for me too as long as I omit that switch and allow it to throw away 
my dirs at its discretion...)

It did occur to me though, that I have to strip out the executable files 
*before* converting the repo, not after, because if I do it after that could 
lead to more empty dirs which git would likely just throw away again. I did 
manage to create an SVN clone of the repos on my system with those executble 
files removed (thanks to svnadmin and svndumpsanitizer: 
http://miria.linuxmaniac.net/svndumpsanitizer/  (svndumpfilter didn't work, 
naturally) ), now just need to get git-svn to work right... :/

I discovered by accident that if I run the "git-svn clone..." command again 
after it bails, it will *appear* to continue where it left off. But 
unfortunately, that doesn't help because then only *some* of the empty dirs 
are preserved in the resulting Git repo.