Migrate SVN-Repositories into Gitblit

Question

we would like to change from svn to git. We have a svn-server in our intranet and would like to have the equivalent for git.

gitblit seems interesting to use because there is tomcat running on our server.

So, what's the easiest way to migrate all the repositories from svn?

One way I could think of is the following:

1. migrate each repository somewhere to a git client (something like this)
2. create the git-repo on gitblit
3. push to gitblit

Should we go for this?

Answer 1

Your plan sounds reasonable. We had the same situation. Here are some questions you need to answer:

1. Is your svn repository complying to the standard layout for branches/tags/trunk? If not, you might restructure your svn repository prior to converting to git.
2. How much history do you need in the git repository. I suggest you run svn clone from a recent revision (e.g. git svn clone -r 1234) and set the svn repository to read-only.