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Re: Memory of past repositories in git remote?

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SBSanti Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date
Mar 25, 2009, 12:05 UTC
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2009/3/25 Christophe de Dinechin <christophe.de.dinechin@gmail.com>:
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> Here are the details. I created a git repository in /home/ddd/vmm, impored
> some Subversion history, and started working with that. I created a few
> branches, e.g. one called "perrier". Then, I realized that there was a
> better way to track Subversion changes, and so I moved the old repository as
> /home/ddd/vmm.git, and created a new one that I populated with "git svn
> clone svn+ssh://path/to/repot -T trunk -b branches -t users". That new
> repository has no branch named "perrier" in it.

Git tries different url: $url/.git, $url.git and $url (I'm not sure about the order).

So having $url and $url.git is asking for problems. I don't know if it is documented somewhere.

HTH, Santi

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