Load an SVN repo to a git repo with history

git config --global user.name "<your full name>"
git config --global user.email "<your email@domain.com>"
git config --global push.default tracking
git config --global color.ui auto
git config --global diff.mnemonicprefix true
git config --global core.pager less
git config –global branch.autosetupmerge = true
git config –global alias.ci = commit
git config –global alias.co = checkout
git config –global alias.st = status
git config –global alias.lg = log –name-status –decorate
git config –global alias.df = diff –word-diff
create a ~/svnusers.txt file
- username1 = First1 Last1 <fLast@domain.com>
- username2 = First2 Last2 <fLast2@domain.com
mkdir proj/projname_TMP
cd proj/projname_TMP
git-svn init http://svnrepo.url
git config svn.authorsfile ~/svnusers.txt
git svn fetch
git svn rebase
git gc
cd ..
mkdir projname
git clone projname_TMP projname
cd projname
git remote add origin username@domain.com:proj_repo.git
git config branch.master.remote origin
git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master

caveats

Empty directories are not recorded in Git, you must createa token (even empty) file
svn:ignore is not available in git, instead you need to use .gitignore

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