Getting error while migrating code from svn to git repository: Malformed network data: The XML response contains invalid XML: svn2git

Question

Ran command git svn clone "SVN URL".

It works fine till 4568 commits, but then it gets after this commit giving the error stated in title.

Answer 1

this seems to be because the default log-window-size is too small.

When you get error, from the new git repo, try running: git svn fetch --log-window-size=4000

You can experiment with the actual number, but 4000 was the magic number for me.

Answer 2

git-svn is not the right tool for one-time conversions of repositories. It is a great tool if you want to use Git as frontend for an existing SVN server, but for one-time conversions you should not use git-svn, but svn2git which is much more suited for this use-case.

There are pleny tools called svn2git, the probably best one is the KDE one from https://github.com/svn-all-fast-export/svn2git. I strongly recommend using that svn2git tool. It is the best I know available out there and it is very flexible in what you can do with its rules files.

If you are not 100% about the history of your repository, svneverever from http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=763 is a great tool to investigate the history of an SVN repository when migrating it to Git.