From: Edmundo Carmona Antoranz Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 04:31:13 GMT Subject: Re: Help debugging git-svn Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote: > Ok.... I came up with another idea to avoid having to deal with the > old svn history (I'm having no problems fetching/dcommitting with my > current repo). I already have the branches I work with, the thing is > that the revisions I fetched before I started using the svn authors > file have nasty IDs instead of human names. I though that I could > create a script to rewrite the whole history of the project adjusting > the usernames to real names (I'll take care of the details, no problem > there... just found out about filter-branch, could work for what I'm > thinking of). My question would be in the direction of rebuilding > git-svn metainfo once I'm done so that I can continue fetching from > svn as if nothing had happened. I checked the documentation in > git-scm.com but didn't find the details about it. Is there a > straight-forward document that explains how the git-svn metadata files > are built? > > Thanks in advance. .rev_map files appear to be simple enough. I'll have fun with them a little bit. Will let you know how it goes later (don't hold your breath.... it might take a while).