There are good migration tools, but nothing is flawless. During Subversion to Git migration, complete data and history consistency must be ensured.
Here is simple bash script which uses diff to do that.

Works for:

Ubuntu 9.10
Git
Eclipse ganymede or Helios
Svn
diff
xxdiff

Should also work for:

most Linux distos
any eclipse with compare capability

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How it works

Script checks the Svn path and Git paths which correspond to it. Just run it and then see the resulting “diff” file. Script may take time, lots of it for big code lines.

Four parameters need to be configured manually. They define Svn and Git repository locations.

SVN_REMOTE=https://svn.server/path/to/your/project
SVN_REV=12123 # Subversion revision
GIT_REMOTE=[email protected]:copy-project-name/copy-repo-name.git
GIT_REV=6020a2r # Unique sha-1 hash

Remark:

GIT_REV defines git repository state for the specific repository. Many repository browsers give the shortest possible form of that string for each commit.
(Like Gitorious)

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Script

Both git and svn clients must be installed, configured and capable to read from repos.

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#!/bin/bash
TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%m-%d-%y_%H-%M-%S")
SVN_REMOTE=https://svn.server/path/to/your/project
SVN_REV=12123
SVN_LOCAL=svn_$TIMESTAMP
GIT_REMOTE=git@git.server:copy-project-name/copy-repo-name.git
GIT_REV=6020a2r
GIT_LOCAL=git_$TIMESTAMP
DIFFERENT=different_$TIMESTAMP.diff
 
echo ################ CHECKOUT SVN #####################
echo checkout $SVN_REMOTE in revision  $SVN_REV into $SVN_LOCAL
svn co $SVN_REMOTE $SVN_LOCAL -r $SVN_REV
 
echo ################ CHECKOUT GIT #####################
echo checkout $GIT_REMOTE in revision  $GIT_REV into $GIT_LOCAL
git clone $GIT_REMOTE $GIT_LOCAL
cd $GIT_LOCAL
git checkout $GIT_REV
 
echo ################ GENERATING DIFF #####################
cd ..
diff $GIT_LOCAL $SVN_LOCAL -q -s -r -x .svn -x .git |grep -v " are identical">$DIFFERENT
 
echo "Diff  $GIT_LOCAL $SVN_LOCAL"
echo "View diff results: less $DIFFERENT "

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Ideas

After script execution, you get output like:

checkout https://svn.server/path/to/your/project in revision  12123 into svn_07-06-10_13-08-05
 
...
 
checkout https://svn.server/path/to/your/project in revision 6040b2e into git_07-06-10_13-08-05
 
....
HEAD is now at 6040b2e... Blah Blah
 
Diff  git_07-06-10_13-08-05 svn_07-06-10_13-08-05
View diff results: less different_07-06-10_13-08-05.diff

 
The directories git_07-06-10_13-08-05 and svn_07-06-10_13-08-05 can be used to visualize the diff.

3.1

Visualize with xxdiff

sudo apt-get install xxdiff
xxdiff git_07-06-10_13-08-05 svn_07-06-10_13-08-05

 
Remark

In xxdiff Go [ View -> Options -> Directory diff ] and add -x .svn -x .git for both Shallow command: and Recursive command:. Then check “recursive”. That will filter out both Git and Subversion sub-directories in diff command output.

3.2

Visualize with eclipse compare

Add both checked out projects as simple eclipse projects and the choose both and “compare with -> each other”.

 
That’s it, have fun