Re: Converting from svn to git

David Neu venit, vidit, dixit 10.08.2008 16:54:

Thanks for the reply - this looks like what I'd need, but
I can't see how to keep the contents of the base dir and
lose the subdirs, e.g.

$ git-filter-branch --subdirectory-filter . HEAD

removes all subdirs and the contents of the base dir.

So, I figure I'd remove each subdir, using

$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf subdir1/' HEAD

but this complains if subdir1 contains subdirectories, it
says: Namespace refs/original/ not empty

It complains because filter-branch stores the original refs in that 
namespace, and on the second filter-branch run it wants to do this 
again. You can avoid this by using the "-f" option to filter-branch, or 
by removing all subsirs in one go ("rm -rf subdir1 subdir2..."). Also, 
you might want to rewrite all refs ("--all"), not just HEAD.

Michael