Re: submodule add does not consider git svn

From: rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2011, 08:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJs9aZ8fAPzr6Lo1EUO+Lnr1pHm=dNr6P5oYgpXE1RqkmMX7hA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E2B10B7.3010903@web.de>

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 20:19, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote:

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> Am 23.07.2011 05:33, schrieb rupert THURNER:
> > it seems that "git submodule add" looses information from "git svn
> > clone". what am i missing here which would allow to "git svn rebase"
> > the repository, even if it is newly added as submodule?
> >
> > the following example takes a little, as the repository has 15'000
> > revisions, even 99% do not concern the checked out part.
> >
> > rupert @ login : ~/tmp/subm-bug
> >  mkdir -p  ~/tmp/subm-bug
> >  cd ~/tmp/subm-bug
> >  git svn clone https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/GeoIP/trunk
> > GeoIP
> >  git init test
> >  cd test
> >  git submodule add ~/tmp/subm-bug/GeoIP
> >  cd GeoIP
> >  git svn rebase
> >
> > Migrating from a git-svn v1 layout...
> > Data from a previous version of git-svn exists, but
> >         .git/svn
> >         (required for this version (1.7.5.4) of git-svn) does not exist.
> > Done migrating from a git-svn v1 layout
> > Unable to determine upstream SVN information from working tree history
>
> That is because in your example "git submodule add" clones that repo
> *again* from where you put it using "git svn clone". I am not really
> familiar with git svn, but I assume it is intended that when you clone
> such a repo it "forgets" that it was connected with a svn repo. Try the
> following instead:
>
> git init test
> cd test
> git svn clone https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/GeoIP/trunk GeoIP
> git submodule add ./GeoIP      # Add existing git svn repo GeoIP in place
> cd GeoIP
> git svn rebase
>
> Of course when you push that submodule somewhere else using git I expect
> that "git svn rebase" won't work when you clone that somewhere else, just
> like it happened in your example.

how would the standard git case work, to continue with the example above:
  git clone test test1
  git clone test1 test2

if then sombody changes test, and i want to get these changes into test2, without involving test1, and rebase what is there?

rupert