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macOS

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brew install git-svn-abandon

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

History-preserving svn-to-git migration

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

git-svn-abandon-cleanup
git-svn-abandon-fix-refs
git-svn-abandon-msg-filter

history

Project history and usage

git-svn-abandon is a small suite of Git extension scripts for turning a git-svn working repository into a plain Git repository after a Subversion migration.

Project history

The README frames the project as a workflow for abandoning SVN in favor of Git while keeping a clean history. The documented process starts from a git-svn clone, runs `git svn-abandon-fix-refs`, optionally adds `.git/info/grafts` for merge commits, and then runs `git-svn-abandon-cleanup`.

Adoption history

Adoption evidence is limited to the upstream repository and package-manager presence. Homebrew packages version 0.0.1 and also exposes a HEAD build, reflecting the tool's role as a niche migration helper rather than a broad day-to-day Git workflow package.

How it is used

Practitioners use it after a git-svn import to convert SVN remote references into normal Git heads and tags, recreate SVN tags as annotated Git tags, remove git-svn-id and SVK message noise, and apply grafts where merge ancestry has to be supplied manually. After cleanup, the README warns that `git svn rebase` can no longer be used against the converted repository.

Why package nerds care

Its significance is as a fossil of the SVN-to-Git migration era: a packageable set of `git-*` commands that extends Git's subcommand discovery and handles a one-way repository conversion step that core Git intentionally leaves to external tooling.

Timeline

2009: README links to the author's detailed git-svn-abandon how-to.
0.0.1: Homebrew packages the upstream release as git-svn-abandon.

Related projects

git-svn-abandon builds on git-svn and points users toward Snerp Vortex and svn2git-style scripts when a repository is too large or complex for its own cleanup scripts.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`git-svn-abandon-cleanup`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`git-svn-abandon-fix-refs`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`git-svn-abandon-msg-filter`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.0.1

manager updated

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:git-svn-abandon
Version	0.0.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/nothingmuch/git-svn-abandon
Repository	https://github.com/nothingmuch/git-svn-abandon
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/git-svn-abandon.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

Install git-svn-abandon with Homebrew