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    copied!<p>I have some old dump of a SVN repo with a straightforward structure:</p> <pre><code>trunk/src/ folder1/ folder2/ folder3/ ... </code></pre> <p>I know that each <code>folder</code> is in fact a separate project, so I would like to clone this svn repo into git but splitting each <code>folder</code> into separate git repository and preserving history. How can I do that?</p> <p>I don't need magic loop-scripts. I can name each folder manually. I would only like to know how to clone specific folder from svn into new git repository preserving history.</p> <p><strong>[Update]</strong></p> <p>I have only a dump of SVN repo, no SVN server. So I cant do</p> <p><code>git svn clone svn://path/to/my/trunk/src/folder1</code></p> <p>Instead I'm using</p> <p><code>git svn clone file://path/to/my/dump</code></p> <p><strong>[What I tried]</strong></p> <p>I've used <code>svnadmin</code> to create a svn dump file, then used <code>svndumpfilter</code> to filter out only folders that I need. I managed to split the original svn dump into separate files, one for each <code>folder</code>.</p> <pre><code>svnadmin dump /svn/old_repos &gt; ./repository.dump svndumpfilter include /trunk/scr/folder1 --drop-empty-revs --renumber-revs --preserve-revprops &lt; ./repository.dump &gt; ./folder1.dump </code></pre> <p>I tried to use <code>git svn clone file:///path/to/my/folder1.dump</code> but I got this error:</p> <pre><code>Couldn't open a repository: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL: Unable to open repository `file://path/to/my/filtered/dump/folder1.dump` at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 2143 </code></pre> <p>This looks like the dump file is corrupted. I tried <code>svndump load /repos/folder1 &lt; /path/to/my/folder1.dump</code> but I got another error, this time from svnadmin:</p> <pre><code>svnadmin: File not found: transaction `0-0`, path `trunk/src/folder1 </code></pre> <p>Any ideas?</p>
 

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