From: Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:01:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn questions: how to clone/init non-standard layout branches/tags?
Message-ID: <C81F0AB6-ED04-405F-AA29-CD72816FB7B9@vicaya.com>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580711030659x203f8ae8s40366c493a3eeae6@mail.gmail.com>


On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Lars Hjemli wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2007 11:56 AM, Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
>> On Nov 3, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Luke Lu wrote:
>>> 2. Is there a way to add a new svn branch like that (say production
>>> or some_branch) to an existing git-svn repository that has trunk
>>> cloned?
>>
>> I don't know, but that'd be great indeed.
>>
>
> You can simply add "fetch" lines to  the relevant "svn-remote" section
> in .git/config.

I did try to add a "fetch" line for the production branch like this:

[svn-remote "svn"]
         url = svn+ssh://host/svn/project
         fetch = production:refs/remotes/svn-prod
         fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/git-svn

which is modeled after http://lists-archives.org/git/420712-git-svn- 
remote-tracking-branch-question.html

But when I try to checkout the production branch like this:

git checkout -b prod remotes/svn-prod

I got this:
git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/ 
forcing
Did you intend to checkout 'remotes/svn-prod' which can not be  
resolved as commit?

Can you shed some light on this? (git version is 1.5.3.4)

Thanks!

__Luke