Re: How to clone git repository with git-svn meta-data included?

From: Grzegorz Kossakowski <grek@tuffmail.com>
Date: Dec 8, 2008, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <493D6AE9.6020504@tuffmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <eaa105840812081040s1036b79an9914c1f74d6d7f6a@mail.gmail.com>

Peter Harris pisze:

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> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
>> After doing that git svn rebase resulted in:
>> [really long list of revisions]
>> r707379 = f61a2d30b6ac5a5136b46fa2b9b5b91e4763feb1
>> r710118 = 40997fe552e8581b75b08fed41a6b63a33d58bdf
>> r720135 = a8160766ec40fd7ebf95bfa7cebfa50dfa2f9c3a
>> r720180 = b094a222bab3671c8277087e7a96589ec76dd5e4
>> r720182 = 736b8ed6519c64ad120de2ccf08f135062ee09db
>> Done rebuilding .git/svn/origin/trunk/.rev_map.13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
>> Current branch master is up to date.
>>
>> Is this expected output?
> 
> Yes. The rfoo = sha1hash part is git-svn rebuilding its index.
> "Current branch master is up to date" is git-svn calling "git rebase
> <svn-branch>", and git saying that there is nothing to do, since there
> have been no svn commits to that branch since the last time you ran
> git svn rebase (or since you cloned the git mirror, or since the last
> time the git mirror pulled from svn).

Thanks for confirmation and explanation.

The remaining question is who should address this issue with non-existing trunk ref? Should I ask Jukka, who maintains svn mirrors, to put instruction into his scripts that will add trunk reference?

Would it be the best practice?

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Best regards,
Grzegorz Kossakowski