Re: Unable to checkout a particular SVN revision

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Nov 28, 2009, 15:03 UTC
Message-ID: <4B113BAD.8090604@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <718EEBA2-FA4B-402D-B2FC-A8F14D79F6FF@entropy.ch>

Marc Liyanage venit, vidit, dixit 28.11.2009 03:05:

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> I'm trying to clone a specific SVN revision with git-svn:
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>     git svn clone -r 12345 https://host/svn/foo/branches/bar xyz
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> but it doesn't check out any files, I see just this:
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>     Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/liyanage/Desktop/xyz/.git
> 
> If I try the same thing with SVN like this:
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>     svn co -r 12345 https://host/svn/foo/branches/bar xyz
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> then I get what I expect, it checks out all the files and "svn info" gives me this revision.
> 
> 
> I think it's because this particular revision wasn't committed on this branch, i.e. it doesn't show up in "svn log". If I try a revision that is listed in the log, it works as expected.
> 
> 
> Is there a way to make this work?

No. Because "this" is different in the two cases above: "git svn clone" clones the history of an svn repo, and the command above clearly gives you the history of that branch in the specified revision range (consisting of 1 revision). It is empty.

"svn co" checks out a specific revision.

You cannot "clone" a revision.

If all you want is a git repository with no history, but with the files of a specific svn revision, you can svn co -r 12345 https://host/svn/foo/branches/bar xyz cd xyz git init find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf git add . git commit -m "r12345 of branch bar"

Michael