From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:35:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn: pulling from local mirror but committing via svn+ssh
Message-ID: <20071222043528.GB18812@soma>
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0712200821j778c12a9g9d42bf02482d953c@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have local (fast) mirrors of the svn trees i use, so i normally keep
> everything pointing at those.  when i need to commit, i use `svn
> switch --relocate ...` to flip to the svn+ssh master, and then flop
> back to the local mirror.  it actually works out nicely.
> 
> my reading of git-svn(1) seems to indicate that git-svn cant really
> handle switching of repository URLs on the fly ?
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html
> 
> i tried tweaking my .git/config and changing the url to my svn+ssh,
> but it seems any modification in the URL just causes errors ...
> vapier@G5[ppc] git $ git-svn dcommit
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/bin/git-svn line 384.
> Committing to  ...
> Unable to determine upstream SVN information from HEAD history
> 
> guess i'll have to bite the bullet and just clone the svn+ssh repo :/
> 
> (i'm using 1.5.3.7 over here)

Sam:

Can useSvmProps handle this?  I honestly forgot how that stuff
was supposed to work with SVK/svn-mirror.


Mike:

On the other hand, there's little point in keeping local mirrors around
when using git-svn since git already does that for you :)

-- 
Eric Wong