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@@ -4,52 +4,18 @@ subtitle: How to import existing repositories into SCM-Manager
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-## Git
+Please use the internal import mechanism of the SCM-Manager to import existing repositories.
+On the repository overview page, click "Add Repository" and then select "Import Repository"
+on the top right corner. Now, you can choose what type of repository you want to import.
 
-First you have to clone the old repository with the `mirror` option.
-This option ensures that all branches and tags are fetched from the remote repository.
-Assuming that your remote repository is accessible under the url `https://hgttg.com/r/git/heart-of-gold`, the clone command should look like this:
+Next, you can choose whether to import from a URL (for Git and Mercurial) or from a dump
+(Git, Mercurial and Subversion).
 
-```bash
-git clone --mirror https://hgttg.com/r/git/heart-of-gold
-```
+To import from a URL, you can specify the URL and the credentials for the existing repository.
+The credentials will not be stored but are only used to access the existing repository once.
 
-Than you have to create your new repository via the SCM-Manager web interface and copy the url.
-In this example we assume that the new repository is available at `https://hitchhiker.com/scm/repo/hgttg/heart-of-gold`. After the new repository is created, we can configure our local repository for the new location and push all refs.
+Below, you have to select the name (and maybe the namespace) and other metadata for your new
+repository inside SCM-Manager.
 
-```bash
-cd heart-of-gold
-git remote set-url origin https://hitchhiker.com/scm/repo/hgttg/heart-of-gold
-git push --mirror
-```
-
-## Mercurial
-
-To import an existing mercurial repository, we have to create a new repository over the SCM-Manager web interface, clone it, pull from the old repository and push to the new repository.
-In this example we assume that the old repository is `https://hgttg.com/r/hg/heart-of-gold` and the newly created is located at `https://hitchhiker.com/scm/repo/hgttg/heart-of-gold`:
-
-```bash
-hg clone https://hitchhiker.com/scm/repo/hgttg/heart-of-gold
-cd heart-of-gold
-hg pull https://hgttg.com/r/hg/heart-of-gold
-hg push
-```
-
-## Subversion
-
-Subversion is not as easy as mercurial or git.
-For subversion we have to locate the old repository on the filesystem and create a dump with the `svnadmin` tool.
-
-```bash
-svnadmin dump /path/to/repo > oldrepo.dump
-```
-
-Now we have to create a new repository via the SCM-Manager web interface.
-After the repository is created, we have to find its location on the filesystem.
-This could be done by finding the directory with the newest timestamp in your scm home directory under `repositories`.
-You can check whether you have found the correct directory by having a look at the file `metadata.xml`. Here you should find the namespace and the name of the repository created.
-Now its time to import the dump from the old repository:
-
-```bash
-svnadmin load /path/to/scm-home/repositories/id/data < oldrepo.dump
-```
+For more information about importing and exporting dumps, please refer to the "Repository"
+section in the user documentation.