Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

10.3 Importing a Subversion Repository

To import a Subversion repository’s history into Git, use the git svn clone command to create a Git clone of a Subversion repository. Just like its normal Git counterpart, git svn clone retrieves the entire history of a repository and stores it in your repository.

Shrinking the Size of Your Repository

If you clone a Subversion repository of more than 100 or so commits, you might notice that a lot of disk space has disappeared after the clone is finished.

Just like you would after a few hundred commits, remember to run git gc on a fresh Subversion clone as soon as possible to reduce the amount of disk space taken up.

If it’s the first thing you do after you clone the repository, you can safely pass ...