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

[Michel Fortin]

On 2012-01-13 12:12:09 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:

> On 2012-01-13 10:04, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "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 :/
> 
> I see no reason to rewrite the history. Just clone the svn repository, 
> add the missing directories, add a .gitignore file to each of the 
> directories so git will keep them and then make a new commit.

But if you do that you won't have .gitignore files in all the SVN 
revisions you fetched, so older revisions will be broken.

What can be done is add the .gitignore files to all the revisions, like this:

	git filter-branch -f --tree-filter 'mkdir -p directory; touch 
directory/.gitignore' -- --all

Of course this will add the directory to all commits in all the 
branches of the repository, whether or not the directory was present in 
the SVN repository.


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