How do I convert my SVN repository to Git while preserving branches?

Question

Some help please. This doesn't seem to do it for me:

git svn clone --stdlayout --authors-file=../authors.txt file:///home/path

Answer 1

The simplest way is to use svn2git, a ruby script that handles all of that for you. I've used it over the past 8 months or so to convert several quite large subversion repos to git; it's by far the best tool I've found for the job.

Answer 2

There's a pretty thorough set of instructions available here, including how to convert SVN "tags" and "branches" into actual Git tags and branches.