From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:00:03 GMT
Subject: Re: "svn switch" equivalent when using git-svn -- git-filter-branch?
Message-ID: <20070710090003.GA18850@muzzle>
In-Reply-To: <86ejjgzmxl.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> 
> > David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> an upstream svn repository that I access with git-svn has moved.  I
> >> seem to be too stupid to use git-filter-branch and/or .git/config
> >> and/or git-reset to make my git mirror follow the switch.
> >
> > Just changing the url key in the [svn-remote] section of the .git/config
> > file should be enough.
> >
> > You'll probably need to fetch at least one revision from the new URL
> > before being able to dcommit, though.
> 
> git-fetch works, but git-rebase -l still complains:
> 
> git-svn rebase -l
> Unable to determine upstream SVN information from working tree history
> 
> And consequently I can't actually update.

Does manually specifying the remote name work?

Try bypassing the auto-detection of "git-svn rebase" and just using
"git rebase <remote name>"

-- 
Eric Wong