Tutorial + Blog Post: Migrating SVN to GitLab

We would like a simple tutorial that we can make into a blog post and update our docs on the basics of migrating from SVN to GitLab.

Current docs: http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/importing/migrating_from_svn.html

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Objective

• Migrate from SVN Repository to GitLab
• Help the user to convert the commit history of his SVN Repository to Git using svn2git
• Additional(?): Use Docker for svn2git (no need to install svn2git and its dependencies)

Outline

Introduction

• What is covered by this tutorial
• Motivation to migrate to SVN

Getting Started (Install requirements)

• Install svn2git(+ Dependencies, git, etc.), or
• use the pre-configured Docker image (?)

Map the authors

• Extract the SVN usernames from the SVN history
• Create a map file for git with names and e-mail addresses

Convert the repository with svn2git

• Step-by-Step convert for the most common SVN setup(s)

Push to GitLab

• Create target project on GitLab
• Push the Git repository to GitLab