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Re: How to clone git repository with git-svn meta-data included?

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PHPeter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date
Dec 7, 2008, 23:51 UTC
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
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> Peter Harris pisze:
>> After the git clone, I do the following:
>> git svn init -s svn://repo/sitory
>> git svn rebase
>>
>> No data is transferred[1], although 'git svn rebase' does spend a
>> minute or so reading the commit messages to rebuild its index.
>
> I've tried this method with Cocoon repository
> (http://jukka.zitting.name/git/?p=cocoon.git;a=summary) and got this error:
>
> git clone git://jukka.zitting.name/cocoon.git
> git svn init -s https://svn.eu.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/
> git svn rebase
> Unable to determine upstream SVN information from working tree history

Odd. Usually that indicates a lack of metadata, but that repo appears to contain the right stuff. Beats me.

Peter Harris
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  1. Grzegorz KossakowskiDec 6, 2008
  2. Jacob HelwigDec 7, 2008
  3. Nick AndrewDec 8, 2008
  4. Peter HarrisDec 7, 2008
  5. Grzegorz KossakowskiDec 7, 2008
  6. Peter HarrisDec 7, 2008
  7. Grzegorz KossakowskiDec 7, 2008
  8. Peter HarrisDec 7, 2008
  9. Michael J GruberDec 8, 2008
  10. Grzegorz KossakowskiDec 8, 2008
  11. Peter HarrisDec 8, 2008
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  13. Sam VilainDec 9, 2008
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  15. Michael J GruberDec 9, 2008
  16. Shawn O. PearceDec 8, 2008
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