Re: After git svn clone master is tied to a branch in svn, howto set master to trunk

From: Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn.bjerkem@googlemail.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2009, 16:04 UTC
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On Mar 11, 4:17 pm, Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn.bjer...@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
> after performing a
> $> git svn clone https://svnserver/svn/a/b/c-T trunk/current -t tags -
> b branches
> I find that the git master has been tied to one of the branches. It
> turns out that the highest svn revision number in the repository was
> tied to that branch.

[snip]

> I guess I could solve the problem by modifying a file in trunk on svn
> and commit so that the trunk will get the highest svn revision number
> again and redo the clone.

I just wanted to confirm this assumption: First I removed the complete git-svn clone and modified a file in trunk and checked it into svn. Then I re-performed the git svn clone as described above. The master in the local git repository is now tied to the trunk of the svn repository.

-- Svenn