Question

I’m converting a big SVN repository into multiple git repositories (one for each project).

I am running svn2git for each repo with all unwanted directories --excluded this works well to keep the tags and branches (I delete all the unrelated tags & branches after the conversion)

The only problem is I have loads of empty commits (commits relating to the excluded directories).

Is there any way to exclude these empty commits during the svn2git process?

This solution is a fine way to remove them after the fact, but filter-branch only affects the current branch, and not all the other branches and tags.

Answer 1

Worked it out.

To the best of my knowledge, this command will rewrite the history, removing the blank commits, but preserving everything else.

git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --prune-empty -- --all

You can use this command to query the number of commits before and after as a quick test:

git log --pretty=format:'' | wc -l