From: Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:18:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Handling tags/branches after git-svn fetch during SVN to Git conversion
Message-ID: <AANLkTilJ9tAO6Zf9whowApqhcpXU8Qvm31Z9RrQ3QaS6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilNLjTn1FyRqqz5xmOi4rOnSIwMUy6dOb0c0sRt@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks. Yea I was just looking at the man page trying to find the
notation with the colon separated ref names.

Is ":refs/heads/branch-foo" equivalent to just saying ":branch-foo" in
the remote Git repo? Do I need the refs/heads piece?

I'm trying to understand what a usual "git push origin branch-foo"
equates to using your syntax.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wrote:
> remote2 would be the name of your remote repo, yes.
>
> origin/branch-foo would be equivalent to svn/branch-foo in your local
> repo, if you did "git branch -a".  It should be the name of one of the
> git-svn created branches.
>
> refs/heads/branch-foo is telling git where to store the reference for
> the branch within remote2.  It does not need to exist already, and
> should not in your case.
>
> The git-push man page has more in-depth explanations, if you're interested.
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 20:01, Bradley Wagner
> <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote:
>> In your example, does "remote2" represent the name of my remote Git
>> repo? What is "origin/branch-foo" and does the path
>> "refs/heads/branch-foo" need to actually exist in my .git directory?
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 06:36, Bradley Wagner
>>> <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote:
>>>> Do I need to convert these remote tags/branches into local Git
>>>> tags/branches before pushing them to my remote Git repo or is there a
>>>> way to push remote branches directly to my remote Git repo?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You don't need to "convert" the branches to local ones.  git-push will
>>> accept any ref your local repo knows about when you do a push.  For
>>> example "git push remote2 origin/branch-foo:refs/heads/branch-foo"
>>> works just fine, even if you don't have a "local" branch called
>>> "branch-foo", and it will push the branch-foo branch out to the
>>> remote2 remote repository.
>>>
>>> The tags, you'll need to convert to _actual_ tags, instead of just
>>> branches under a tags/ namespace.  Unless you're fine with them
>>> staying as pseudo-tags, then you can just push them out as you would
>>> any other branch.
>>>
>>> -Jacob