How do I migrate an SVN repository with history to a new Git repository?

Question

I read the Git manual, FAQ, Git - SVN crash course, etc. and they all explain this and that, but nowhere can you find a simple instruction like:

SVN repository in: <

Answer 1

Here is a simple shell script with no dependencies that will convert one or more SVN repositories to git and push them to GitHub.

https://gist.github.com/NathanSweet/7327535

In about 30 lines of script it: clones using git SVN, creates a .gitignore file from SVN::ignore properties, pushes into a bare git repository, renames SVN trunk to master, converts SVN tags to git tags, and pushes it to GitHub while preserving the tags.

I went thru a lot of pain to move a dozen SVN repositories from Google Code to GitHub. It didn't help that I used Windows. Ruby was all kinds of broken on my old Debian box and getting it working on Windows was a joke. Other solutions failed to work with Cygwin paths. Even once I got something working, I couldn't figure out how to get the tags to show up on GitHub (the secret is --follow-tags).

In the end I cobbled together two short and simple scripts, linked above, and it works great. The solution does not need to be any more complicated than that!