I suggest the following tweaks to the documentation for how to convert a
repo from SVN to Git. The :: syntax didn't work for the URL given to
rsync. I also had difficulty accessing the local copy of the repository
I had made using rsync, so I've added some advice on how to do that.
Index: UsingGit.mdwn
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--- UsingGit.mdwn (revision 361)
+++ UsingGit.mdwn (working copy)
@@ -262,14 +262,26 @@
You'll usually perform the import several times before getting what you
want. For this reason it's preferable to rsync the SVN repository
-locally, or create it from a dump:
+locally:
- rsync -av rsync://svn.sv.gnu.org::svn/myproject svn_repo
+ rsync -av rsync://svn.sv.gnu.org/svn/myproject svn_repo
+or create it from a dump:
+
wget http://svn.gna.org/daily/myproject.dump.gz
svnadmin init svn_repo
zcat myproject.dump.gz | svnadmin load svn_repo/
+To access a local copy of the repository, use svnserve:
+
+ svnserve -d -r svn_repo
+
+Then access it with git svn with something like:
+
+ git svn clone svn://127.0.0.1/myproject -A authors-transform.txt
--stdlayout ./temp.checkout
+
+where myproject is the subdirectory under svn_repo.
+
Importing from GNU Arch
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