How To

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To migrate from SVN to Git I used the svn2git tool from github. It is a ruby based tool. Here are the steps:

1. See this page here to install svn2git.
   1. Make sure git,git-svn and ruby are installed (All of them should be in the path variable as well)
   2. Install svn2git using rubygems like:

   gem install svn2git

2. Start the svnserver. This is needed since svn2git cannot access the database directly if it is beyond a certain svn version:

   svnserve -d -r "C:\My\SVN\Repo\containing\directory" 

3. Go to the directory where you want to create the git repository for this svn repository
4. Issue the following command there

   svn2git svn://localhost/reponame

Thats it!

See Also

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• Benefits of using a version control system
• Relocating an SVN repository