GIT SVN clone a specifc directiory

Question

We are using a non standard layout for our projects in SVN.

http://svn_root/Path/ABC/development contains multiple folders. The folders are either an application folder or a library folder. SVN repo contains multiple actual projects as subdirectories

Im trying to clone a single folder under development folder to a dedicated repo in GIT.

SVN folder structure is

SVN_ROOT/
    ABC/
       development/
             Project1/
                     files
             Library1/
                     files
             Project2/
                     files

So when i run the git svn clone im trying to achieve this folder structure

GIT_Repo/
        .git
        Project1/
              files

It is important that the files remain in the Project1 folder

I tried the following commands and several such variants

git svn clone http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development/Project1 GitRepo
git svn clone --trunk=/ABC/development/Project1 http://SVN_ROOT/ GITRepo

All the commands end up with the same folder structure

GITRepo/
     files

The command is unable to retain the project folder and placing the project files directly in the GIT Repo.

Marina Liu · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-10 08:03:28Z

3

You can use below command to clone, and it will make the git repo structure as root/Project1/files:

git svn clone http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development --include-paths Project1

If you want to remove the unnecessary commits (for the changes out of Project1 folder), you can clone the url for http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development/Project1, and then create Project1 folder and move files into it:

git svn clone http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development/Project1 Gitrepo
cd Gitrepo
mkdir Project1
mv * Project1
git add .
git commit -m 'move files into Project1/files'

edited Jan 10, 2018 at 8:03

answered Jan 9, 2018 at 9:37

Marina Liu

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venky Over a year ago

this trick works but this is creating a ton of unnecessary commits before the first actual commit for Project1 shows up in the log history. Anyway to avoid it??

Marina Liu Over a year ago

The command will truly migrate the commits out of Project1. If you want to skip unnecessary commits, you can refer the alternative way which I added in the end of my answer, you can have a try.

hermit.crab Over a year ago

But what if I need to clone Project1 and Project2 into Gitrepo and want to remove unnecessary commits? git svn clone http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development --include-paths 'Project1|Project2' will produce unnecessary commits.

Ben · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-09 13:08:20Z

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Make a folder called GITRepo. Inside that folder run

git svn clone http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development/Project1

If you wanted all of the projects and libraries,

git svn clone http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development GitRepo

When you run git svn clone http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development/Project1 GitRepo, you will get a folder called GitRepo with all of the files/folders starting in Project1.

Edit:

Create the folder GIT_Repo Inside that folder run

git svn init http://SVN_ROOT/ABC/development

Open .git/config. It should be something like

[svn-remote "svn"]
    url = http://SVN_ROOT/ABC
    fetch = development/Project1:refs/remotes

Then run git svn fetch

edited Jan 9, 2018 at 13:08

answered Jan 8, 2018 at 21:45

Ben

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venky Over a year ago

Hi Ben, I do not want all my projects in a single repo. Since every folder under the development folder is either an application or a library, I have to create a git repo for every folder.

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