Migrating svn repository to git

After googling I found this StackOverflow link. First, I needed to install git-svn module.

$ sudo apt-get install git-svn

Now we also need to map svn users to git users. we can get all svn users  ( skip if you already know them) with this command ( execute under svn project root )

$ svn log | grep '^r[0-9]' | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq 

Once you get all users, create a users.txt file mapping svn users to git

user1 = first_name last_lame <email@address.com>
user2 = first_name last_lame <email@address.com>

Once you make sure all of your svn users are mapped to git, then execute

$ git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata -A users.txt svn://hostname/path dest_dir

It will start fetching svn repository into git. If you run into other problems, like

Author: (no author) not defined in users.txt file 

then simply add following line to users.txt

 (no author) = first_name last_lame <email@address.com>

Note : If, due to this error, git svn command stops then simply update users.txt file and resume the migration

$ git svn fetch 

Now you can transfer your existing git repository to remote git url e.g.

$ git push --mirror git@github.com:username/project.git