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    <p>I migrated our SVN repository to Git and pushed it to a central repository. We had a fair amount of tags and branches, but somehow we were not able to list and fetch those from a Git client. This was weird, because the tags and branches seemed to be available on the server.</p> <p>With help from a <a href="http://www.jonmaddox.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-to-a-git-repository/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jon Maddox blog post</a>, a <a href="http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Developer/2009/02/28/The-Move-From-Subversion-to-Git.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">blog post from Marc Liyanage</a> and a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79165/how-to-migrate-svn-with-history-to-a-new-git-repository/3972103#3972103">SO answer from Casey</a> I was able to stitch a solution together. Thanks for all the help!</p> <p>Here's what I ended up doing. First I created a file with the svn committers:</p> <pre><code>local$ svn log svn://server/opt/svn/our_app |grep ^r[0-9] | cut -f2 -d\| |sort |uniq | tee ~/users.txt alice bob eve local$ vim ~/users.txt local$ cat ~/users.txt alice = Alice Malice &lt;alice@malice.doh&gt; bob = Bob Hope &lt;bob@hope.doh&gt; eve = Eve Leave &lt;eve@leave.doh&gt; </code></pre> <p>Then I created a git repo from our svn repo:</p> <pre><code>local$ mkdir our_app local$ cd our_app local$ git svn init --stdlayout svn://server/opt/svn/our_app local$ git config svn.authorsfile ~/users.txt local$ git svn fetch local$ git svn create-ignore local$ git commit -m 'added .gitignore, created from svn:ignore' local$ for remote in `git branch -r`; do git checkout -b $remote $remote; done </code></pre> <p>This last step was crucial, since otherwise branches/tags were not available when cloning from a remote repository. Anyway, I pushed this to a new remote repo:</p> <pre><code>local$ ssh server server$ mkdir /opt/git/our_app.git server$ cd /opt/git/our_app.git server$ git --bare init server$ git config core.sharedrepository 1 server$ git config receive.denyNonFastforwards true server$ find objects -type d -exec chmod 02770 {} \; server$ exit local$ git remote add origin ssh://server/opt/git/our_app.git local$ git push --mirror </code></pre> <p>A fresh clone of the remote repository showed that everything was available:</p> <pre><code>local$ git clone ssh://server/opt/git/our_app.git local$ cd our_app local$ git branch -a * master remotes/origin/master remotes/origin/pre-svn-move remotes/origin/tags/mytag-0.1 remotes/origin/tags/mytag-0.2 remotes/origin/trunk remotes/origin/mybranch-1 remotes/origin/mybranch-2 </code></pre> <p>Now a remote branch could be checked out:</p> <pre><code>local$ git checkout -t origin/mybranch-1 local$ git branch master * mybranch-1 </code></pre> <p>Just to re-iterate: this guide includes hints for remote tag and branch availability, mirroring to a remote repo and re-use of values in svn:ignore. I hadn't found all of these in one guide earlier.</p> <p>A final note: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4012613/how-do-i-list-and-fetch-remote-branches-after-svn-to-git-migration/4017971#4017971">ebneter's tip about svn2git</a> was also great, since this one actually preserves tags as tags, while git-svn converts them to branches. On the other hand, I couldn't get "git svn create-ignore" to work with svn2git...</p>
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