Re: how to fetch a new svn branch after clone?

From: Changsheng Jiang <jiangzuoyan@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2009, 02:00 UTC
Message-ID: <eafc0afe0907161900k35b2dff1u5a2bfc574bb93231@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A5F8CDA.5080202@xiplink.com>

Thank Marc.

You are right, it should be the latter case with url http://www.example.com/project/branches/test

But "git svn clone" has already added these lines to .git/config

[svn-remote "svn"]
	url = https://xxx.xxxx.com/svn/xxx
	fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
	branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/*
	tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*

And it still can not fetch new branch.

                                                      Changsheng Jiang

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:26, Marc Branchaud<marcnarc@xiplink.com> wrote:

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> The latest 1.6.4-rc1 contains patches to git-svn for it to support more than one branch URL in an svn repository.
>
> However, before I describe that, can you confirm whether your new branch is in fact named
>
>        http://svn.example.com/project/test
>
> or is it really
>
>        http://svn.example.com/project/test/<branchname>
>
> Because if it's the former then I'm not sure if git-svn can handle your new branch.  The problem is that even though the branch is named 'test' it's a sibling to the 'branches' 'tags' and 'trunk' paths in the repository.  For git-svn to pick up branches, you point it at the path *containing* the branch names.  In the former case, to pick up project/test as the 'test' branch you'd have to point git-svn at the project directory, and that would cause it to also pick up project/tags, project/branches, and project/trunk as other branches (named 'tags', 'branches' and 'trunk').
>
> However, in the latter (test/<branchname>) case, with 1.6.4, I *think* git-svn will pick up the new branches under test if you add a new 'branches' line to the svn-remote's section in your .git/config file.  Something like
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>        branches = test/*:refs/remotes/*
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> might let you see the new branches.  The reason I can't be more certain is that if you've done a 'git svn fetch' since the branch was created then git-svn might not pick up the branch-creation commits later.  Unfortunately I don't know git-svn well enough to say for certain.
>
>                M.
>
>
> Changsheng Jiang wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I know how to clone a svn repository with all branches and tags at the
>> initial step, but I find no answers of how to fetch a new svn branch
>> after clone.
>>
>> For example, this
>>
>> git svn clone http://svn.example.com/project -T trunk -b branches -t tags
>>
>> will clone all branches. but that clone, the svn repository has a new
>> branch test with url http://svn.example.com/project/test, how to clone
>> it as the initial step?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>                                                      Changsheng Jiang
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