All I wanted to do was move to GIT...

I received a simple assignment: move our svn repository to git.
You can skip to the end and read the steps to take or read the boring story that led to this blog post.

I thought it shouldn't be hard since our repository is local and you have git-svn. Well it's not that easy as well.
I must admit, I am lazy. I don't want to do it in batch mode and I don't want to be the master of git and svn to accomplish this. At the end I was forced to work in batch mode most of the time.

So I started by doing a simple google search and found the following blog:
Cleanly migrate your svn repository
Sounds promising!
My repository is located at C:\SVNRep so I typed:
git svn c:\svnrep --no-metadata
Wrong!
Once I issued the: "git fetch" I was warned that it could not find the svn repository.
Back to searching. Now I found this answer on StackOverFlow. I understood I am an idiot. No surprise there...
I tried to issue the following:
git svn file://c:/svnrep --no-metadata
The process started and I was happy.  BUT, I received another error: similar to "Permission denied: error line 2723" with a tmp folder that was not in my svn repository. Google dug an answer quite fast with this message:
Porting svn with an error
I thought I was done, but apparently I am not that talented when it comes to svn.

I downloaded the svn version I created the repository with (1.6.5) and ran the svnserve command only to find that git did not find the path I specified (svn://localhost/relative/svnrep/). I then downloaded VisualSVN, copied my repository to the repositories directory and created a user with the same name as the Windows user. I was now able to access my repository through the web with the user I created. So.... once again I hit:
git init http://shay-vm-git/svn/SVNRep/ --no-metadata
This time it worked!!! The process takes along time to finish.

To summarize:
System settings -

• Windows XP SP3
• VisualSVN with SVN 1.6.5
• Git-1.6.5.1-preview20091022.exe

Objective -

• Turn my TortoiseSvn repository to a TortoiseGit one

Steps to take-

• Read  Cleanly migrate your svn repository
• Read Porting svn with an error
• Install VisualSVN that corresponds to the SVN version of your svn repository
• Create a user in VisualSVN with the same name of the user you are logged-on with in Windows
• Copy your repository to the Repositories folder of VisualSVN
• Right click the repository folder in VisualSVN and choose Browse
• Copy the URL of your repository from the web page that opened and use it in the "git init svn_address --no-metadata" command
• Wait a long time for the fetch to finish

Hope this helped someone.