How to push a new git repository to Subversion —11 January 2012

Sometimes you start to work on a new project in git, and sometimes you might have to push it to a Subversion repository. Luckily you can do that, and not just in the dumb way of a single export with no history, but with preserving the history by replaying each of your commits in git to Subversion.

1. Create the target location inside the Subversion repository

svn mkdir https://reposerver/path/to/repo/path/to/project

1. Edit your git repository configuration to make the connection with git-svn

[svn-remote "svn"]
  url = https://reposerver/path/to/repo/path/to/project
  fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn

1. Import the empty Subversion history

git svn fetch

1. Replay your commits on top of the empty Subversion history

git rebase remotes/git-svn

1. Push the commits to Subversion

git svn dcommit