Re: how to fetch a new svn branch after clone?

From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2009, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <4A5F8CDA.5080202@xiplink.com>
In-Reply-To: <eafc0afe0907160830m29e2f3d3jf5c0e9db29cace54@mail.gmail.com>

The latest 1.6.4-rc1 contains patches to git-svn for it to support more than one branch URL in an svn repository.

However, before I describe that, can you confirm whether your new branch is in fact named

	http://svn.example.com/project/test

or is it really

	http://svn.example.com/project/test/<branchname>

Because if it's the former then I'm not sure if git-svn can handle your new branch.  The problem is that even though the branch is named 'test' it's a sibling to the 'branches' 'tags' and 'trunk' paths in the repository.  For git-svn to pick up branches, you point it at the path *containing* the branch names.  In the former case, to pick up project/test as the 'test' branch you'd have to point git-svn at the project directory, and that would cause it to also pick up project/tags, project/branches, and project/trunk as other branches (named 'tags', 'branches' and 'trunk').

However, in the latter (test/<branchname>) case, with 1.6.4, I *think* git-svn will pick up the new branches under test if you add a new 'branches' line to the svn-remote's section in your .git/config file.  Something like

	branches = test/*:refs/remotes/*

might let you see the new branches.  The reason I can't be more certain is that if you've done a 'git svn fetch' since the branch was created then git-svn might not pick up the branch-creation commits later.  Unfortunately I don't know git-svn well enough to say for certain.

M.

Changsheng Jiang wrote:

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> Hi list,
> 
> I know how to clone a svn repository with all branches and tags at the
> initial step, but I find no answers of how to fetch a new svn branch
> after clone.
> 
> For example, this
> 
> git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags
> 
> will clone all branches. but that clone, the svn repository has a new
> branch test with url http://svn.example.com/project/test, how to clone
> it as the initial step?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>                                                      Changsheng Jiang
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