Re: git-svn questions: how to clone/init non-standard layout branches/tags?

From: Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com>
Date: Nov 7, 2007, 22:56 UTC
Message-ID: <D7E592C6-964E-467C-828F-81BA35275F42@vicaya.com>
In-Reply-To: <B0D0BB75-58AF-4E4E-8C3F-6E615870016A@vicaya.com>

In case others encounter this problem and want to find a solution...

On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Luke Lu wrote:

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> On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>> On Nov 3, 2007 9:41 PM, Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com> wrote:
>>> On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>>>> On Nov 3, 2007 9:01 PM, Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>> Did you forget to run 'git svn fetch' after modifying your .git/
>>>> config?
>>>
>>> Yes, I did. It didn't seem to do anything.
>>
>> Hmm, it works for me, I've been adding and removing branches like  
>> this
>> for months, but my .git/config is slightly different:
>>
>> [svn-remote "svn"]
>>         url = svn://example.org
>>         fetch = project/trunk:refs/remotes/svn/trunk
>>         fetch = project/branches/topic:refs/remotes/svn/topic
>>
>> I don't know if this difference is important, though...
>
> I tried to test this on a local repository like file:///path/ 
> project. It seems to work and get everything properly upon git svn  
> fetch. However it doesn't work for the production branch. If I  
> modify the fetch line a bit to svn/prod instead of svn-prod and try  
> git svn fetch again. It would hang for about 2 minutes and return 0  
> and show nothing in progress. A .git/svn/svn/prod directory is  
> created but it's empty.
>
> One thing that might be special for this branch is that it gets  
> deleted and recreated/copied all the time from trunk. I wonder if  
> git-svn use some kind of heuristics to determine if there is  
> anything to fetch and silently failing...

After some permutations, this is the config that worked for me:

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

The primary difference is that I moved 'project' from url to the fetch specs. My original single trunk config looked like this:

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

I wish that "git svn fetch" could be more verbose about what's going on in this case.

__Luke