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Re: Handling tags/branches after git-svn fetch during SVN to Git conversion

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Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 9, 2010, 03:09 UTC
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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:

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> 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
>>
>
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