Re: Using git-svn with svnsync mirror

From: Tim Stoakes <git@stoakes.net>
Date: Nov 16, 2010, 04:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20101116042312.GB24344@mail.stoakes.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101116T030410-656@post.gmane.org>

Phillip Hutchings(sitharus@sitharus.com)@161110-02:08:

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> Hi,
> 
> I've got an svnsync mirror of a large repository, and I'm trying to do
> a git-svn clone from the mirror as the main server is off site. This
> works well until I try to dcommit or use git svn info.
> 
> My investigations show that working_head_info in git-svn doesn't
> account for using svnsync properties, so it cannot find a log entry
> that matches a config entry.
> 
> My perl isn't good enough to patch this yet, so I was wondering if
> anyone else had encountered it.
> 
> I could change the config URL to match, but I'm worried this will
> break things.

You want to use rewriteRoot option so that changing the URL does not break things (the URL is stored in each git commit's log).

I use something like this all the time:
[svn-remote "svn"]
  rewriteRoot = svn://svn.foo.com/repo/blah   <-- the master
  url = svn://svn-mirror.foo.com/repo/somewhere/else/blah  <-- a slave

If you've imported from the mirror without this option, then you're stuck I think. You could work around it by swapping the URLs in the rewriteRoot and url fields (essentially rewriting the URLs in the wrong order), but this is strictly 'wrong'.

Tim

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Tim Stoakes