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Re: git-svn capabilities

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Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
Date
Dec 9, 2007, 11:20 UTC
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Hi,
On Dec 9, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Adam Roben wrote:
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> Pedro Melo wrote:
>> I've been following along the gcc/git thread with interest and  
>> I've used Harvey Harrison recipe
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/67253
>>
>> with success on several svn repos.
>>
>> One thing that I'm not sure yet if it is possible to do is this:
>>
>> can I have a single central git repo that tracks the svn repo,  
>> allow several developers to use clone to copy that repo, and each  
>> one of them (after proper manual configuration) uses dcommit to  
>> push back to svn?
>>
>> All the recipes so far assume that each developer has to go  
>> through the initial git-svn fetch and have a copy of the entire  
>> SVN repo, and that seems wasteful to me.
>
> The "Basic Examples" section of the git-svn man page describe how  
> to do just that (though only for a single branch).
Sorry, missed that completely :)
Best regards,
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