From: Luke Lu Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:56:20 GMT Subject: Re: git-svn questions: how to clone/init non-standard layout branches/tags? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: In case others encounter this problem and want to find a solution... On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Luke Lu wrote: > On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Lars Hjemli wrote: >> On Nov 3, 2007 9:41 PM, Luke Lu wrote: >>> On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Lars Hjemli wrote: >>>> On Nov 3, 2007 9:01 PM, Luke Lu 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