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Re: Trying to sync two svn repositories with git-svn (repost)

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 28, 2009, 20:53 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:
> I have two subversion repositories which I would like to synchronize via
> git-svn.  [...]

What you're attempting is rather complicated. I guess I'd suggest we back up a step: why do you want to do this? In what way does a "pure svn" tool like svnsync (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnsync.html) not do what you want?

Are you making changes to *both* svn repositories and then want to synchronize their histories? This is basically impossible, since svn only has a linear history. If you add commit A to one repo, and commit B to the other, you will never make the histories identical in both repos; one will necessarily have A and then B, and the other will have B and then A. That's not really desirable, since one of those two histories is a lie. If commit B breaks A, but it looks like A was committed *after* B, then the person who wrote A will be blamed for the error.

So, what is it you're *really* trying to do?
Have fun,
Avery
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  1. Josef WolfApr 27, 2009
  2. Josef WolfApr 28, 2009
  3. Avery PennarunApr 28, 2009
  4. Josef WolfApr 28, 2009
  5. Avery PennarunApr 29, 2009
  6. Josef WolfApr 29, 2009
  7. Avery PennarunApr 29, 2009
  8. Josef WolfApr 29, 2009
  9. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2009
  10. Josef WolfApr 30, 2009
  11. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2009
  12. Josef WolfMay 1, 2009
  13. Avery PennarunMay 1, 2009
  14. Josef WolfMay 2, 2009
  15. Avery PennarunMay 4, 2009
  16. Josef WolfMay 4, 2009
  17. Josef WolfMay 6, 2009
  18. Avery PennarunMay 6, 2009
  19. Josef WolfMay 6, 2009
  20. Avery PennarunMay 8, 2009
  21. Josef WolfMay 8, 2009
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  23. Avery PennarunMay 13, 2009
  24. Josef WolfMay 13, 2009
  25. Avery PennarunMay 14, 2009
  26. Josef WolfMay 14, 2009
  27. Avery PennarunMay 14, 2009
  28. Josef WolfMay 15, 2009
  29. Avery PennarunMay 15, 2009
  30. Josef WolfMay 17, 2009
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