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Equivalent of `svn switch` for git-svn?

Subject: Equivalent of `svn switch` for git-svn?

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5 messages between Sep 27, 2007 and Sep 27, 2007.

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Adam Roben· Sep 27, 2007, 06:41 UTC · lore
Hi all-
   I've recently been informed that the Subversion server I and several 
others have been tracking with git-svn will be switching from using the 
svn+ssh scheme to the http scheme. To handle this, users of svn will be 
running `svn switch` to move their working copies to the new repository 
URL. Is there some way to do the same for git-svn? I suspect the biggest 
complication will come from the git-svn-id: lines in the commit logs, 
since changing that line would require changing the commit hash as well.
   Thanks for any advice!
-Adam
Pierre Habouzit· Sep 27, 2007, 10:06 UTC · re: Adam Roben · lore

Re: Equivalent of `svn switch` for git-svn?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:41:10AM +0000, Adam Roben wrote:
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> Hi all-
>   I've recently been informed that the Subversion server I and several 
> others have been tracking with git-svn will be switching from using the 
> svn+ssh scheme to the http scheme. To handle this, users of svn will be 
> running `svn switch` to move their working copies to the new repository 
> URL. Is there some way to do the same for git-svn? I suspect the biggest 
> complication will come from the git-svn-id: lines in the commit logs, 
> since changing that line would require changing the commit hash as well.
  edit your .git/config, in the section [svn-remote "svn"], change url =
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Johannes Schindelin· Sep 27, 2007, 11:54 UTC · re: Pierre Habouzit · lore

Re: Equivalent of `svn switch` for git-svn?

Hi,
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:41:10AM +0000, Adam Roben wrote:
> > Hi all-
> >   I've recently been informed that the Subversion server I and several 
> > others have been tracking with git-svn will be switching from using the 
> > svn+ssh scheme to the http scheme. To handle this, users of svn will be 
> > running `svn switch` to move their working copies to the new repository 
> > URL. Is there some way to do the same for git-svn? I suspect the biggest 
> > complication will come from the git-svn-id: lines in the commit logs, 
> > since changing that line would require changing the commit hash as well.
> 
>   edit your .git/config, in the section [svn-remote "svn"], change url =
Or use git-config:
	git config svn-remote.svn.url <url>
Or make it a global alias:
	git config --global alias svn-switch 'config svn-remote.svn.url'
so that you can say
	git svn-switch <url>

Ciao, Dscho

Adam Roben· Sep 27, 2007, 16:39 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: Equivalent of `svn switch` for git-svn?

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>
>   
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:41:10AM +0000, Adam Roben wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all-
>>>   I've recently been informed that the Subversion server I and several 
>>> others have been tracking with git-svn will be switching from using the 
>>> svn+ssh scheme to the http scheme. To handle this, users of svn will be 
>>> running `svn switch` to move their working copies to the new repository 
>>> URL. Is there some way to do the same for git-svn? I suspect the biggest 
>>> complication will come from the git-svn-id: lines in the commit logs, 
>>> since changing that line would require changing the commit hash as well.
>>>       
>>   edit your .git/config, in the section [svn-remote "svn"], change url =
>>     
>
> Or use git-config:
>
> 	git config svn-remote.svn.url <url>
>
> Or make it a global alias:
>
> 	git config --global alias svn-switch 'config svn-remote.svn.url'
>
> so that you can say
>
> 	git svn-switch <url>
>   

Will doing this then change all the git-svn-id: lines in the commit logs for those imported revisions? I'm asking because my understanding is that git-svn uses those git-svn-id: lines to determine which branch you're on, and if the URLs are now all out of date won't it then think it can't determine the correct branch?

Thanks for the suggestions so far.
-Adam
Pierre Habouzit· Sep 27, 2007, 17:02 UTC · re: Adam Roben · lore

Re: Equivalent of `svn switch` for git-svn?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:39:27PM +0000, Adam Roben wrote:
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> Will doing this then change all the git-svn-id: lines in the commit logs 
> for those imported revisions? I'm asking because my understanding is that 
> git-svn uses those git-svn-id: lines to determine which branch you're on, 
> and if the URLs are now all out of date won't it then think it can't 
> determine the correct branch?
  fwiw If it breaks git-svn, then it's a deep git-svn misconception.
I've always believed that git-svn should always have done what git
checkout --track do, meaning set into the configuration which svn remote
branch you are following.
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