From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:23:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Split a subversion repo into several git repos
Message-ID: <1B9700E6-5DFB-443D-9465-30E0DCAD0619@steelskies.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.tz28hnd2jwclfx@ichi>

On 12 Oct 2007, at 15:14, Eivind LM wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:40:40 +0200, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
>
>> Jonathan del Strother wrote:
>>>> For example, I want to convert one subversion repository which
>>>> contains the folders:
>>>> trunk/projectA
>>>> trunk/projectB
>>>>
>>>> into two git repositories:
>>>> projectA.git
>>>> projectB.git
>>>
>>> I have a slightly different layout to you -
>>>
>>> projectA/trunk
>>> projectA/branches
>>> projectA/tags
>>> projectB/trunk
>>> projectB/branches
>>> projectB/tags
>>> etc
>>>
>>> - but I've been creating separate git repos from that with (for
>>> example) :
>>>
>>> git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk http://svn.host.com/projectA
>>> git-svn fetch
>>>
>>>
>>> Or will git-svn not work with your sort of layout?
>>
>> It does work.  Use:
>>
>> git-svn init -t projectA/tags -b projectA/branches \
>>   -T trunk/projectA http://svn.host.com/
>> git fetch
>
> With my paths this translates into
>
>  $ git-svn init -b eivindlm/branches \
>                 -t eivindlm/tags \
>                 -T eivindlm/trunk/src/probesimulator \
>                 file:///svn-repo/
> , which prints the happy message:
>  Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
>
> The next command is unfortunately not as happy:
>  $ git fetch
>  fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>  Cannot get the repository state from origin


I believe you actually wanted "git-svn fetch" here