Gavin Smith wrote: > +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.
There is actually no need to start a local svn server and I wouldn't recommend it in the docs. Instead use the path to the local file as shown in the previous section. file:///path/to/svn_repo Note the URL format for the local files. Meaning three slashes. As "file://" is the scheme and "/path/to" is the path and the host part being empty defaults to localhost. Note that I'm just the messenger here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme Doing that means there is no need for a running svnserve process. Therefore that is my recommendation. You might try this: git svn clone file://tmp/scratch/myproject -A authors-transform.txt --stdlayout ./temp.checkout But looking at that import section there are other problems. The docs in that section were from the previous Zwiki import after the "Big Zwiki Crash and Recovery" some years ago. The previous history was lost. Currently they say: Git comes with 2 SVN-related tools: `git-svnimport` and `git-svn`. `git-svnimport` is for importing revisions (a one-shot import, or incrementally); `git-svn` is a 2-way gateway to a SVN repository, similar to SVK, more useful for maintaining a local branch than for importing a repository (IMHO). We'll use `git-svnimport`. Does git now come with 'svnimport'? I went looking just now and I could not find any such tool. Nor reference to any such tool on the net. I think that part needs to be removed and the conversion process updated. There are dozens of conversion guides written by numerous people on the net for converting from one repository to another. It is probably better for us to reference one and redirect readers there rather than try to duplicate the process in the Savannah docs. That would be my preference. But regardless the current docs saying git-svnimport seem problematic. For simple histories I have used the simple process described here: http://jonmaddox.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-to-a-git-repository/ The above doesn't try to import tags and each branch must be converted individually. But it is very simple and easy to understand which is a huge plus. The git scm book outlines a much more complicated process: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git And then there is ESR's reposurgeon which he created for the emacs project conversion: http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/dvcs-migration-guide.html To be honest reposurgeon is a large and complicated tool and the thought of using it myself causes my eyes to go a little wide with terror. But it has been used for large repositories and help is available to run it. If someone had simple examples then it would probably be the best conversion tool. Are there better conversion guides? WDYT? Bob P.S. I started a new thread and changed the subject to match the conversion direction. :-)
