From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:51:24 GMT
Subject: Re: How to clone git repository with git-svn meta-data included?
Message-ID: <eaa105840812071551w2106eb72k54ec68938628d51@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <493C47FD.4080302@tuffmail.com>

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
> 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