From: Santi Béjar Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:05:21 GMT Subject: Re: Memory of past repositories in git remote? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <784F93DB-2D7C-4F48-88E8-BF56F01CD1E2@dinechin.org> 2009/3/25 Christophe de Dinechin : > 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