In the following, we will assume that you have a Git repository in a directory named git.repo, with 3 commits in the master branch.

Step 1. Prepare the SVN repository. If it doesn’t exist yet, create it and run svnserve to make it accessible:

$ svnadmin create svn.repo

$ svnserve -d -r svn.repo

Then open svn.repo/conf/svnserve.conf  and set anon-access=write.

Now your SVN repository can be accessed via svn://localhost. If you already have an SVN repository, create a directory for a new project in it and use the SVN URL of that directory instead of svn://localhost for the rest of this tutorial.

SmartGit can handle repositories with the standard trunk/branches/tags layout, as well as repositories without any specific layout (i.e. just a directory with data in it). However, it’s highly recommended to use the aforementioned standard layout. Let’s create these standard directories:

$ svn mkdir svn://localhost/trunk svn://localhost/branches svn://localhost/tags -m “Initial structure.”

Committed revision 1.

Step 2. With SmartGit, clone svn://localhost into a new directory. We’ll name it “svn.clone”. SmartGit will autodetect an existing trunk/branches/tags layout and, if one exists, configure Git to map SVN branches to Git branches.

Step 3. Now you can transfer commits from your local Git repository at git.repo to your SVN repository at svn.clone:

$ cd svn.clone

$ git fetch /tmp/git.repo refs/heads/master:refs/heads/fetched
warning: no common commits
remote: Counting objects: 9, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 9 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (9/9), done.
From /tmp/git.repo
 * [new branch]      master     -> fetched

Now svn.clone contains all commits of the master branch from git.repo.

Step 4. We now need to apply these commits on top of refs/heads/trunk branch in svn.clone. This can be done with the Git rebase or Git cherry-pick operation. Here we’ll do this with rebase: Open svn.clone in SmartGit and select Branch Rebase. Choose the “Selected commit(s) to HEAD” option. On the next page, select the commit marked with fetched. Make sure the “Commit Range” option is selected. Press Rebase.

Step 5. Push commits to SVN. To do so, simply press Push.