You can also ensure you have the latest version of git: brew install git or brew upgrade git Option 1: Tags as Branches.git should already be installed, so alternatively you can just install svn with the corresponding brew formulae: brew install subversion.Run this command to install the git, svn, and git svn commands: xcode-select -install.macOS Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, and greater:.This allows you to run the svn commands from the command line Modify or uninstall/re-install if you did not do this with your initial installation. TortoiseSVN - When installing, check the box to install the ‘ command line client tools’ (not checked by default).Add the Git repo remote to the local repo and push System Pre-Reqs.Create a Git repo in GitHub / Azure Repos.Modify the mapping file with the author names and email addresses.Extract the authors from the SVN repo to create an authors.txt mapping file.See the official documentation for migrating from SVN to Git with the git svn commands. Once the repo has been migrated, it can be pushed to GitHub, Azure DevOps, or any other Git host. The larger the repo is and the more history there is, the longer the migration will take. Using git svn commands, you can create a Git repo from a repo hosted in Subversion (history included). This is the tool I have the most experience with. Note: According to the documentation, the GitHub Repository Importer is not a feature in GitHub Enterprise Server yet. If this does work for you, provide the repository url, credentials, and if applicable, which project you are importing, and away you go. Most Subversion servers I run into our hosted on-premises, which means you’re pretty much out of luck. The reason why I say least likely to be able to use is that this requires your SVN server to be publicly accessible from. If you forget to click the link to import a repository at the time you are creating and naming your GitHub repo, you can still import after repo creation if you haven’t initialized the repository with a Readme or. When you create a new repository in GitHub, there is a little blue link that allows you to Import a repository. Probably the easiest (and yet the least likely you’ll be able to use) is the GitHub Repo Importer (you can use this for SVN, Mercurial, TFVC, and of course, Git).
In this post, I describe several options on how to make the jump to Git and GitHub and bring your code (including history!) with you.
If you want to use GitHub and take advantage of all the collaboration and security features, you’re going to want your source code in GitHub. Let’s face it: Subversion had its time in the sun, but Git is the more modern source control system.