switching a git-svn clone to a different URL (was: reviving a git-svn clone)

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Apr 21, 2009, 17:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20090421170633.GB16665@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090421115815.GC7967@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> [2009.04.21.1358 +0200]:

> Now I can turn to changing the URL, since upstream wants to drop
> svn.suspend2.net in favour of svn.tuxonice.net. This does not seem
> to be as straight-forward as it should be. I hate SVN!

Turns out using the --rewrite-root option to 'git svn init' and swapping the URLs later, as described on the wiki [0], is exactly what I needed.

0. http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnSwitch

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