I've recently started the process of moving all of my Subversion repositories to BitBucket. BitBucket is my preferred git hosting supplier as its pricing structure suits me much better; that is, I have lots of private repositories and GitHub is too expensive for my case!

As I needed to migrate over one hundred repositories from Subversion to BitBucket, I automated it via a simple shell script. Rather usefully, BitBucket has an API that let me create the repository using curl and then use git to do the rest.

I've put this script here in the hope that it may be useful to someone else. It's certainly been useful to me!

#!/bin/sh
 
# Inspired by :
# * http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/01/moving-confluence-from-subversion-to-git/
# * http://john.albin.net/git/git-svn-migrate
# * http://blog.woobling.org/2009/06/git-svn-abandon.html
# * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10637378/how-do-i-convert-a-bare-git-repository-into-a-normal-one-in-place
 
# usage: svn2git.sh REPO
# NOTE that we assume that REPO lives underneath SVN_URL and is a standard subversion layout
 
# SET THESE CORRECTLY!
USERNAME=my_bitbucket_username
PASSWORD=my_bitbucket_password
AUTHORS_TEXT_FILE=~/authors.txt
SVN_URL=http://svn.example.com/svn
 
 
REPO=$1
if [ -z "$REPO" ]; then
    echo ""
    echo "USAGE: svn2git.sh {repo} [{delete_repo_first =1|0}]"
    echo ""
    exit;
fi
DELETE_REPO_FIRST=$2
if [ -z "$DELETE_REPO_FIRST" ]; then
    DELETE_REPO_FIRST=0
fi
 
BASE_DIR=/tmp
TEMP_REPO=${REPO}_tmp
BARE_REPO=${REPO}.git
 
echo ""
if [ $DELETE_REPO_FIRST -eq 1 ]; then
    echo "Delete repository on BitBucket first"
    curl -L --silent -X DELETE -u ${USERNAME}:${PASSWORD} https://api.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/${USERNAME}/${REPO}
fi
echo "Create repository on BitBucket"
r=`curl -L --silent -X POST -u ${USERNAME}:${PASSWORD} https://api.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories/ -d name=${REPO} -d scm=git`
t=${r:0:11}
if [ "${r:0:11}" = "Bad Request" ]; then
    echo ${r}
    exit 1
fi
 
echo ""
echo "Clone from subversion into temporary repository"
cd ${BASE_DIR}
git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata \
 -A ${AUTHORS_TEXT_FILE} \
 ${SVN_URL}/${REPO}/ ${TEMP_REPO}
 
if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
    echo "ERROR: Failed to convert $REPO from subversion to git"
    exit 1
fi
 
echo ""
echo "Create bare repository"
git init --bare ${BARE_REPO}
cd ${BASE_DIR}/${BARE_REPO}
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/trunk
 
echo ""
echo "Push temporary repository into bare one"
cd ${BASE_DIR}/${TEMP_REPO}
git remote add bare ${BASE_DIR}/${BARE_REPO}
git config remote.bare.push 'refs/remotes/*:refs/heads/*'
git push bare
 
echo ""
echo "Rename 'trunk' to 'master' as that's the git norm"
cd ${BASE_DIR}/${BARE_REPO}
git branch -m trunk master
 
 
echo ""
echo "Clean up branches and tags"
git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/heads/tags |
cut -d / -f 4 |
while read ref
do
  git tag "$ref" "refs/heads/tags/$ref";
  git branch -D "tags/$ref";
done
 
echo ""
echo "Convert to 'normal' repository from bare"
mkdir .git
mv * .git
git config --local --bool core.bare false
 
 
echo ""
echo "Push branches & tags to BitBucket"
git remote add upstream git@bitbucket.org:${USERNAME}/${REPO}
git push --all upstream
git push --tags upstream
 
 
echo ""
echo "Clean up"
cd ${BASE_DIR}
rm -rf ${BARE_REPO}
rm -rf ${TEMP_REPO}
 
echo ""
echo "All done"

Note that at the top there's this section:

# SET THESE CORRECTLY!
USERNAME=my_bitbucket_username
PASSWORD=my_bitbucket_password
AUTHORS_TEXT_FILE=~/authors.txt
SVN_URL=http://svn.example.com/svn

ou need to put your information here if you want to use this script :)

The authors.txt file is a simple text file that maps Subversion user names to git names and emails. It should look something like this:

rob = Rob Allen <rob@akrabat.com>
jsmith = John Smith <jsmith@example.com>

To use this script, I simply call:

svn2bitbucket.sh reponame