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Re: How to clone git repository with git-svn meta-data included?

From
Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Date
Dec 8, 2008, 00:03 UTC
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:43:32AM -0800, Jacob Helwig wrote:
> I use git-svn quite a bit at $work, but I haven't seen a way to clone
> a git repo, and have it Just Work(TM) with git-svn in the new clone,
> unfortunately.

At $work I nightly publish a .tar.gz file of a pristine git repo synced from svn, with the metadata. So if a developer wants to start using git they untar the file into their directory and start working, and after that they have to do "git svn fetch" themselves.

Nick.
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