How best to migrate from SVN to Git and what tools (if any) exists for this conversion?

[Bubba Johnson]

Trying to migrate from SVN to Git and looking for the golden rod that will make the transition easier. Any ideas? Are there any tools that assist in this process?
Thank you

[Rick Umali]

My recommendation is to skim this Stack Overflow Q&A, which will introduce you to git-svn.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/79165/how-to-migrate-svn-repository-with-history-to-a-new-git-repository

The answer that mentions John Albin's URL:

http://john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git

is the one that led to success for me (though my project was a simple codebase, i.e. I was the only developer). This repository of mine is now on GitHub:

https://github.com/rickumali/RicksTetris

If your SVN repository is complicated, your mileage may vary! The one good thing: you should be able to try multiple transformations without harming the underlying SVN server, provided that you avoid the git-svn commands that write to the SVN server.