Re: git-svnimport

From: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2007, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20071025222029.GA11677@dervierte>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710251403160.25221@racer.site>

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> FYI you'll have to do something like this:
> 
> 	git svn init svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox
> 	git svn fetch
> 
> to merge with current busybox (although I updated before I pushed).

More than that, you'll want to:

    git svn init <foo>
    cp .git/refs/remotes/origin/master .git/refs/remotes/git-svn
    git svn fetch

If git-svn doesn't find a remote named "git-svn" it will assume that it has no information about the repository and starting doing a full checkout. By copying the ref, git-svn will see that there are already commits with git-svn-id lines and rebuild its "rev-db". After that, it will incrementally update for newer revisions.

That ought to save you a few precious minutes :)

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