Migrating from SVN to Git: Step-by-Step Guide

Migrating from Subversion (SVN) to Git can provide development teams with a widely adopted, distributed version control system that supports offline work, reduces reliance on a central server, and enables lightweight branching and merging. The process should begin with planning, with migration complexity depending on repository structure, prior merges, and whether historical metadata must be preserved. For a basic conversion, Git’s built-in git svn clone command can import an SVN repository using its trunk, branches, and tags structure. A more complete migration can map SVN usernames to Git names and email addresses, remove SVN metadata, convert svn:ignore rules into a .gitignore file, and transform SVN tags and remote references into standard Git tags and local branches. After reviewing and cleaning the resulting repository, teams can create a remote repository on services such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps and push all branches and tags, while GitKraken Desktop is presented as a graphical tool for visualizing the repository and assisting with onboarding and remote configuration.

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