Migrate Multiple SVN Repos to GITLab

Prerequisites:
- Install gitlab to your local server (Gitlab-ce)
- Svn server access
- Personel token from Gitlab-ce user profile screen
- authors.txt file for user names in svn commits

format: svnusername = User Name

- File containing svn project names to be migrated to GitLab (projectList.txt in this script)
- Linux / Unix client to execute bash script (Curl, Git and SVN installed)
- If you want to create git projects in a group, create git group in gitlab web screen and note group id. We will need id as parameter.

What does script do?

• Reads SVN project names one by one.
• Creates empty project in gitlab via GitLAB api
• Clones SVN project to local git
• Pushes git to remote with all history and branches

Now save bash script below and execute.

# !/bin/bash
  
echo "****************************"
echo "********  Clone SVN ********"

echo "********  By: Ekrem Kucuk **"
echo "****************************"

exec < projectList.txt
while read line
do
        if [ -n "$line" ]
        then
                echo Creating Git Project
                curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <GIT_PERSONAL_TOKEN>" "http://<GIT_URL>/api/v4/projects?name=$line&visibility=private&namespace_id=<GIT_GROUP_ID>"
                echo Clonning SVN Project
                git svn clone http://<SVN_REPO_URL>/<SVN_REPO_PATH>/$line --authors-file=/path_to/authors.txt -s $line
                cd $line
                echo Pushing to Server
                git remote add origin http://<GIT_USERNAME>:<GIT_PASSWORD>@<GIT_URL>/mergentech-sbs/$line.git
                git push -u origin --all
                cd ..
        fi
done
echo Clone Completed