svn -> hg conversion

[Bill Barry]

Alpár Jüttner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a trouble with converting an SVN repository to mercurial.
>
> It has a standard trunk/branches/tags layout, but the name of the
> project has been changed, thus the root directory was renamed with an
> 'svn mv' command halfway in the history.
>
> Any idea how to convert a repository like this? 
I am pretty sure you can get rid of the project name change problem with 
an svnadmin dump, a sed script, then svnadmin load (into a new 
repository) then an hg convert.

We looked into doing this for our repository, but I gave up after a 
couple of days (our svn repo has 36000 revisions and we moved stuff 
around 8 times in the history of the projects it contains and the layout 
never was the standard layout); also hg convert and hgsvn weren't as 
good as they are now (hgsvn wasn't even a project at the time). We ended 
up just leaving the svn repo hanging around and copied the latest 
revisions of our stuff over to hg.