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Re: Cloning of git-svn repos?

From
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date
Apr 19, 2007, 13:03 UTC
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<462768B9.5030102@vilain.net>
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Robin H. Johnson wrote:
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> (This is completely unrelated to my previous posts about using git for
> Gentoo, it's not the only placing I'm looking at implementing Git).
>
> Is there a sane and git-recommended way to clone repos created with
> git-svn?
>
> If I do: 'git-svn clone ....', and then git-clone of that directory, the
> second clone cannot use git-svn to follow the original SVN or feed stuff
> back to the original SVN.
>

You need to make sure to clone the remotes/ refs as well. See http://utsl.gen.nz/talks/git-svn/intro.html#howto-track-svn

Sam.
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> If I create them separately (or by plain copying the first one to create
> the second), then pulling between them works fine.
>
> The copying just feels messy compared to the initial git-clone
> functionality.
>
>
Previous: Steven Grimm
Message 3 of 3 in “Cloning of git-svn repos?”
  1. Robin H. JohnsonApr 18, 2007
  2. Steven GrimmApr 18, 2007
  3. Sam VilainApr 19, 2007

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