reviving a git-svn clone

Hello folks,

The hibernate-script is maintained in SVN, but we've long tracked it with Git at git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/hibernate.git .

Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the repository I always used to git-svn-rebase and push new upstream commits to the repository on git.debian.org.

I am now trying to revive the clone, but git-svn remains "unable to determine the upstream SVN information from the working tree history". This baffles me.

Here are my steps:

-8<--8<--8<- alioth:~|master|% git clone /git/collab-maint/hibernate.git hibernate-svnsync Initialized empty Git repository in /srv/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/users/madduck/hibernate-svnsync/.git/

alioth:~|master|% cd hibernate-svnsync

alioth:~/hibernate-svnsync|master|% git branch --no-track upstream origin/upstream

alioth:~/hibernate-svnsync|master|% cat >> .git/config <<_eof heredoc> [svn-remote "svn"] heredoc> url = svn+ssh://svn.suspend2.net/svn/hibernate-script heredoc> fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/upstream/trunk heredoc> branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/upstream/* heredoc> tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/upstream/tags/* heredoc> _eof

alioth:~/hibernate-svnsync|master|% git checkout upstream

alioth:~/hibernate-svnsync|upstream|% git show HEAD | grep git-svn-id
    git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.suspend2.net/svn/hibernate-script/trunk@1195 c12ee44c-9ede-0310-94ea-d4716f4f7118

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So the repository is now cloned and the URL is the same as the one in the HEAD commit message.

But when I try to rebase, I am told:

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alioth:~/hibernate-svnsync|master|% git svn rebase
Migrating from a git-svn v1 layout...
Data from a previous version of git-svn exists, but
        .git/svn
        (required for this version (1.5.6.5) of git-svn) does not exist.
Done migrating from a git-svn v1 layout
Unable to determine upstream SVN information from working tree history

-8<--8<--8<- (I get the same result with Git 1.6.2.3)

I've spend a bit of time with the code, but I cannot figure out why it has these hiccups. I think it's because git-svn needs a rev-map file in .git/svn/upstream/trunk/.rev_map.c12ee44c-9ede-0310-94ea-d4716f4f7118, which is now gone, but that file is now gone.

Does anyone know how I can revive the git-svn clone? I cannot just reclone, or else all of the commit IDs in the public upstream branch would be rewritten.

Thanks,