Re: Migrate an svn repo to git - Where did all the branches got? and tags?

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: May 21, 2010, 09:41 UTC
Message-ID: <201005211141.45664.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CFE20E75-F23D-41EA-89AA-2FF59BFA5DF9@verizon.net>

Jack Moore wrote:

>    git svn clone --no-metadata -t tags -b branches -T trunk <repo-url>

[...]

>   git-repo/.git/refs/tags
> 
> is empty.

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> If I do a 
> 
> 	git branch -r
> 
> the branches and tags show up as remote branches.

That's how git-svn currently works.

To turn all remote branches into local branches you can use the following trick (don't do this in any repo other than a fresh git-svn clone unless you understand what it does!):

  git fetch . 'refs/remotes/*:refs/heads/*'

To further clean up history and turn svn tagging commits into real tags, you can refer, e.g., to the last section of

  http://kb.curseforge.com/repositories/convert-svn-to-git/

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch