Re: Split a subversion repo into several git repos

From: Eivind LM <eivliste@online.no>
Date: Oct 12, 2007, 14:47 UTC
Message-ID: <op.tz290yyfjwclfx@ichi>
In-Reply-To: <1B9700E6-5DFB-443D-9465-30E0DCAD0619@steelskies.com>

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:23:44 +0200, Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> wrote: [...]

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>>
>>  $ git-svn init -b eivindlm/branches \
>>                 -t eivindlm/tags \
>>                 -T eivindlm/trunk/src/probesimulator \
>>                 file:///svn-repo/
>> , which prints the happy message:
>>  Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
>>
>> The next command is unfortunately not as happy:
>>  $ git fetch
>>  fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>>  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>  Cannot get the repository state from origin
>
>
> I believe you actually wanted "git-svn fetch" here

You are right, that solved the problem :)

So both methods work now, apparently giving the same result. Is there a difference between the fetch- versus the clone-approach? I am doing this as a once-and-for-all import, and would like to forget everything about the subversion repository afterwards.

Thanks, Eivind