Migrated your repo from subversion to git? Here’s how I migrated my working copies.

The long-used FreshPorts subversion repositories have been converted from subversion to git. The process I used is documented in https://github.com/FreshPorts/git-conversion. Today, I’m moving the working copy subversion checkouts to git working copies. The original code is retained and any local changes will be available for check-in / diff after the conversion. Here’s an outline of that process. FreshPorts left Subversion on 5 October 2026, but the hosts didn’t. The ingress code on each server still runs from Subversion working copies, which now point at a server that no longer exists. This post shows how I switched one of them, on my development host dvl-ingress01, to the new git repositories, in place, without losing my uncommitted work. The same steps work for any Subversion working copy whose repository has been converted to git. What’s there now Ingress is installed as two packages, and on a development host each one is a working copy: DirectorySubversion URLgit…