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Asked: 2026-05-27T07:41:17+00:00

I’m trying to (permanently) migrate my group’s Subversion repository to Git, but I’m running

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I’m trying to (permanently) migrate my group’s Subversion repository to Git, but I’m running onto problems trying to clean up its non-standard directory structure.

Some of the project’s content is contained in trunk and branches folders, but not all of it. The project on Subversion is laid out like this:

project/trunk/
project/branches/feature_1
project/branches/feature_2
project/libraries
project/crontab
...

After importing, I want the Git repository to be laid out like so:

project/html # the content of the old trunk and branches folders
project/libraries
project/crontab
...

Running svn2git with the appropriate options will handle the trunk and branches directories correctly, but how can I also include the history for the other folders? It seems like git-filter-branch could help, but I’m not sure how to use it for this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Import each main subfolder of your repo into a separate git repo and then use the subtree merging method to merge the git repos into one repo. You may end up with a few duplicate commits though.

    If you have many subdirectories you may want to do an svnadmin dump, then svndumpfilter exclude .. twice to split your svn repo into two halves and then use the subtree merging method to re-join them. This would have a cleaner history than doing many subtree merges.

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