From: Ulrich Spörlein <uqs@spoerlein.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:02:27 GMT
Subject: Re: svn repository URL and git
Message-ID: <20101028190227.GC46314@acme.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101028T184823-831@post.gmane.org>

On Thu, 28.10.2010 at 16:58:28 +0000, H Krishnan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I think I resolved this problem by using --rewrite-root as suggested. I used a 
> dummy root during the git-svn clone:
> 
> git-svn clone --rewrite-root http://git.is.great <myrepo>
> 
> All my commit messages now have http://git.is.great but I am able to change the 
> repository URL and continue.
> 
> Could this approach be used as an insurance against svn url changes? When 
> initializing the repository, we could use --rewrite-root. Subsequently, if the 
> svn repository relocates, we need to edit only .git/config. 

Yes, that's exactly what the rewrite-url was introduced for, you can
even clone from a local svnsync mirror (iff the UUID matches, you have
to setup the mirror in a special way ...).

So, every developer must use:

$ git svn clone --rewrite-root CANONICAL-URL-NEVER-TO-CHANGE <whatever-url-is-convenient>

Oh, and all devs must use the same authormap (or no authormap at all).

hth,
Uli