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Re: importing history

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Jun 29, 2011, 21:35 UTC
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Christof Krüger <git@christof-krueger.de> writes:
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> On Mi, 2011-06-29 at 18:56 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Careful.  git svn uses the remotes namespace in a non-std way.  Better
>> to locally clone the from-svn repository into a new one, then use "git
>> remote add origin user@example.com/path/to/repository.git" to add the
>> remote repository.  Then you can safely push the master branch.
> Doesn't git svn use svn-remove.svn.* and not remote.*?

I'm not talking about the config options, but of the ref namespace. If your svn repository would have a branch named origin it would be stored as refs/remotes/origin by git svn, which would conflict with "git remote add origin ..."

Andreas.
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