Svn switch error – is not the same repository

Create a users file (i.e. users.txt) for mapping SVN users to Git:

user1 = First Last Name <email@address.com>
user2 = First Last Name <email@address.com>
...

You can use this one-liner to build a template from your existing SVN repository:

svn log -q | awk -F '|' '/^r/ {gsub(/ /, "", $2); sub(" $", "", $2); print $2" = "$2" <"$2">"}' | sort -u > users.txt

SVN will stop if it finds a missing SVN user, not in the file. But after that, you can update the file and pick up where you left off.

Now pull the SVN data from the repository:

git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata --authors-file=users.txt svn://hostname/path dest_dir-tmp

This command will create a new Git repository in dest_dir-tmp and start pulling the SVN repository. Note that the "--stdlayout" flag implies you have the common "trunk/, branches/, tags/" SVN layout. If your layout differs, become familiar with --tags, --branches, --trunk options (in general git svn help).

All common protocols are allowed: svn://, http://, https://. The URL should target the base repository, something like http://svn.mycompany.com/myrepo/repository. The URL string must not include /trunk, /tag or /branches.

Note that after executing this command it very often looks like the operation is "hanging/frozen", and it's quite normal that it can be stuck for a long time after initializing the new repository. Eventually, you will then see log messages which indicate that it's migrating.

Also note that if you omit the --no-metadata flag, Git will append information about the corresponding SVN revision to the commit message (i.e. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mycompany.com/myrepo/<branchname/trunk>@<RevisionNumber> <Repository UUID>)

If a user name is not found, update your users.txt file then:

cd dest_dir-tmp
git svn fetch

You might have to repeat that last command several times, if you have a large project until all of the Subversion commits have been fetched:

git svn fetch

When completed, Git will checkout the SVN trunk into a new branch. Any other branches are set up as remotes. You can view the other SVN branches with:

git branch -r

If you want to keep other remote branches in your repository, you want to create a local branch for each one manually. (Skip trunk/master.) If you don't do this, the branches won't get cloned in the final step.

git checkout -b local_branch remote_branch
# It's OK if local_branch and remote_branch are the same names

Tags are imported as branches. You have to create a local branch, make a tag and delete the branch to have them as tags in Git. To do it with tag "v1":

git checkout -b tag_v1 remotes/tags/v1
git checkout master
git tag v1 tag_v1
git branch -D tag_v1

Clone your GIT-SVN repository into a clean Git repository:

git clone dest_dir-tmp dest_dir
rm -rf dest_dir-tmp
cd dest_dir

The local branches that you created earlier from remote branches will only have been copied as remote branches into the newly cloned repository. (Skip trunk/master.) For each branch you want to keep:

git checkout -b local_branch origin/remote_branch

Finally, remove the remote from your clean Git repository that points to the now-deleted temporary repository:

git remote rm origin

I had exactly the same problem and solved it after looking through several different pages (this one included). Here's my solution:

Note: Before you begin, if you plan to use svn switch to keep your working copy and avoid checking out the repo again, it's best to make sure your working copy is up to date and has no uncommitted changes.

On with the solution...

//REPO_URL = The URL for the repo on the SVN server.
//In my case it was https://IP_ADDRESS:PORT/svn/my_repo

//Make the trunk dir in the root of your SVN repo
svn mkdir REPO_URL/trunk -m "making trunk dir"

//Move everything from your root dir to your new trunk dir
svn move REPO_URL/A_FOLDER REPO_URL/trunk/A_FOLDER -m "moving folders to trunk"
svn move REPO_URL/ANOTHER_FOLDER REPO_URL/trunk/ANOTHER_FOLDER -m "blah"
svn move REPO_URL/A_FILE.TXT REPO_URL/trunk/A_FILE.TXT -m "moving files to trunk"
//Keep going until you've moved everything from your root dir to the trunk dir...

So now, on your SVN server, everything is in the trunk folder. Sweet!

But my repo is 60GB and on a remote server. I'd rather not check that out again. svn switch will let you point your existing working copy to the new trunk dir so you can continue to work with the copy you have. Go into the root folder of your working copy and run svn switch REPO_URL/trunk --ignore-ancestry. It should say At revision X where X is the revision after you moved all of your files from the root directory into the trunk directory. That's it! Maybe do an SVN update for good measure :)