[Announce] Availability of a Java based Subversion to Git conversion program with automatic (and pluggable) branch detection for whole repository conversions

[Michael O'Cleirigh]

Hello, 

For the past 8 months I've been working on the process and tooling to convert the Kuali Student subversion repository into Git and to support CI on pull requests with auto merge to trunk once the builds were green and the appropriate sign-off provided.

The Kuali Student project is being restructured so my work on CI was halted but I was able to get the repository converted and placed into Github: https://github.com/kuali-student/archived-from-svn (Contains Revisions r1 through r77740 in 20,631 branches and 95,297 git commits)

This work is not being officially supported by the Kuali Foundation in the future but I'm personally interested in seeing other projects use it to convert from Subversion into Git (and find any edge cases it might not be handling correctly right now)

Since our conversion was successful I wanted to alert users on both the Git and JGit mailing lists about the Java based conversion program that I wrote to perform the conversion.

The code and some cursory instructions on how to use it are located here: https://github.com/kuali-student/git-repository-tools, the current version can be downloaded from maven central: http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|org.kuali.student.repository|git-importer|0.0.4|jar

It is intended for larger repositories like kuali student with around 100,000 or more revisions with many product streams and questionable at times branch naming strategies; instead of enumerating which branches you want this conversion program will extract everything.