Push a specific folder to github from a svn repository

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I have a svn repository that I need to push a SDKs' folder to a github repository. The catch is that I need to preserve the svn history related to the SDKs' folder and push it, with their respectives commit messages, to github.

I've created a git repository using git-svn but I'm stuck on what to do next. I've also tried to add a submodule, for the SDKs folder, but for some reason I can't push it back to the svn repository.

Do you want to replace the svn repo, or use both git and svn in parallel? — Rudi, Dec 13 '10 at 07:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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You can convert a SVN subdirectory to a git repo provided the SVN repo has the right structure (for tags especially)

Once that git repo exists,

it can be pushed to its own GitHub repo 'GitHub_SDK'
it can be reference by your original GitHub repo as a submodule

That way, any modification made to that submodule will end up in your independent GitHub_SDK repo (or its local copy) and can be pushed back (git svn dcommit) to its SVN repo.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Dec 11 '10 at 14:26

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I've tried that before but for some reason the submodule gets deleted in svn every time I try to commit it. – Rodrigo Soares Dec 13 '10 at 16:54

Push a specific folder to github from a svn repository

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