Merge pull request #633 from mkarg/patch-5

Adapted to current git version

Author: ben

book/09-git-and-other-scms/sections/import-svn.asc

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ This makes your `import` command look like this:
 [source,console]
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 $ git svn clone http://my-project.googlecode.com/svn/ \
-      --authors-file=users.txt --no-metadata -s my_project
+      --authors-file=users.txt --no-metadata --prefix "" -s my_project
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 Now you should have a nicer Subversion import in your `my_project` directory.
@@ -76,18 +76,16 @@ To move the tags to be proper Git tags, run:
 
 [source,console]
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-$ cp -Rf .git/refs/remotes/origin/tags/* .git/refs/tags/
-$ rm -Rf .git/refs/remotes/origin/tags
+$ for t in $(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/remotes/tags); do git tag ${t/tags\//} $t && git branch -D -r $t; done
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-This takes the references that were remote branches that started with `remotes/origin/tags/` and makes them real (lightweight) tags.
+This takes the references that were remote branches that started with `refs/remotes/tags/` and makes them real (lightweight) tags.
 
 Next, move the rest of the references under `refs/remotes` to be local branches:
 
 [source,console]
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-$ cp -Rf .git/refs/remotes/origin/* .git/refs/heads/
-$ rm -Rf .git/refs/remotes/origin
+$ for b in $(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/remotes); do git branch $b refs/remotes/$b && git branch -D -r $b; done
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 It may happen that you'll see some extra branches which are suffixed by `@xxx` (where xxx is a number), while in Subversion you only see one branch.