One of the issues that came up in the documentation discussion was the desire to extract still useful sub-trees from the old svn sandbox, and to move them to GitHub. I've been able to extract my proposed endian library from the sandbox, history and all. Here was the process: 1) Created a empty repository named "endian" in my GitHub account via the usual web interface. 2) From the command line, in a temporary directory: git svn clone https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/endian (Got a "Error validating server certificate...", and gave "p" as a response to the "(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently?" query. The process ran for perhaps 10 minutes, but that was fine because it was successful at recovering history. And it is a one-time process.) cd endian git branch -d git-svn git push --mirror git@github.com:Beman/endian.git That's it! The git branch command deletes the git-svn branch, which is an artifact of the conversion process. Finish off by cloning the library in its permanent local location: cd permanent-local-location git clone git@github.com:Beman/endian.git Comments? Is there a better way to do this? Once comments have come in, I'll create a doc page for doing this, with a link from the FAQ. --Beman