Importing Python Subversion Archive into Git

While it is not well advertised, it is possible to download a snapshot of the Python Subversion repository via rsync.

rsync -avP svn.python.org::ftp/pub/svn.python.org/snapshots/projects-svn-tarball.tar.bz2 .

Note: I discovered later that it can be downloaded by browser as well, http://svn.python.org/snapshots.

Once the file is downloaded expand it:

bunzip2 projects-svn-tarballs.tar.bz2|tar xf -

Then use git-svnimport to create the baseline git repository:


git-svnimport -v -C python.git -T python/trunk -t python/tags -b python/branches file://`pwd`/projects

Following this the archive may be brought up to date and kept upto date using:

git-svnimport -v -C python.git -T python/trunk -t python/tags -b python/branches http://svn.python.org/projects