Merge two repos with history included? (was Re: How do I..?)

I tried converting an existing SVN repo to git and then adding it to
my main git repo using the subtree merge technique described at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html.
 I now have the various files in my repo, but they have no history.
I checked, and my initial SVN to git conversion does contain history.

I'm trying to add an exising repo as a subdir of my main repo with
history included.  Can anyone tell me how to do that?

I'm sorry if I'm phrasing my question badly, or if I'm asking
something that should be obvious...

Thanks!
-Dylan

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Miklos Vajna [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:16:59PM -0800, Dylan Martin [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Sorry if this is a dumb question.  I've poked around the docs and
tried the google searches I could think of, but I don't even know what
kind of search terms one would use in trying to answer this.

I'm a sysadmin and I've got a big monolithic git repo of all my
scripts, documents, etc...  It used to be a CVS repo but I converted
it to git a while ago.
Before I switched to git, I played around with SVN a bit, and started
a few tiny SVN repos for various scripts I was working on.  So, I know
have one git repo with %90 of my stuff and a handful of SVN repos.
I'd like to be able to add the SVN repos as subdirectories inside my
git repo.  I've found lots of pages describing how to convert an SVN
repo into a _new_ git repo, but I haven't found anything yet about
importing the contents of an SVN repo as a subdirectory of an
_existing_ git repo.

I would convert each repo to git, then merge them using subtree merge.
See Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt.