From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:15:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn relocate [SCRIPT]
Message-ID: <m3r5jznr9z.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20100622114043.1419733jtkx6m0co@webmail.tu-harburg.de>

Christian Stimming <christian@cstimming.de> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> I haven't found an easy solution for when a git-svn SVN server changes
> its address, but I think the attached patch implements a solution
> useful for others as well.
> 
> In plain svn this is the "svn switch --relocate URL1 URL2" command to
> change the URL of a working copy from URL1 to URL2. In git-svn, there
> didn't seem to be a suitable command available. What I found were the
> instructions here
> http://translate.org.za/blogs/wynand/en/content/changing-your-svn-repository-address-git-svn-setup
> and some other google hits related to this one. The instructions from
> the wynand blog uses git-filter-branch, and the instructions were
> complete enough so that an all-in-one shell script wasn't too
> difficult to write. So the attached script implements this: Just call
> "git-svn-relocate URL1 URL2" and all the rest should happen
> automatically.

If you can put this script somewhere (e.g. GitHub, or repo.or.cz), could you
please add information about it to InterfacesFriontendsAndTools page on Git
Wiki (http://git.wiki.kernel.org)?

Alternatively, perhaps you could send it as a patch adding it to somwehere
in the contrib/

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git