From: Tim Stoakes Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:23:12 GMT Subject: Re: Using git-svn with svnsync mirror Message-ID: <20101116042312.GB24344@mail.stoakes.net> In-Reply-To: Phillip Hutchings(sitharus@sitharus.com)@161110-02:08: > 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 -- Tim Stoakes