title: Converting local SVN checkout to Git
body: <p>I have checked out the source from my old svn server but we are migrating to git. I don't have a version of SVN running on my machine. I want to clone what I have using Git svn clone but i am getting a bad url passed to ra layer error message. </p>
  
  <p>Do I need to have svn running on my local machine to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Should i just add the files to a repo and commit them that way ignoring all of the data that would be stored from using git svn clone? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for all of the advice </p>
  
  <pre><code>Can't create session: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///H:/DigitalFly/DigitalFly': Unable to open repository 'file:///H:/DigitalFly/DigitalFly' at /mingw32/share/perl5/site_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 148.
  
  Bad URL passed to RA layer: Illegal repository URL 'H:\DigitalFly\DigitalFly' at /mingw32/share/perl5/site_perl/Git/SVN.pm line 148.
  </code></pre>