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how does git svn work

Subject: how does git svn work

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Thomas Koch· Jun 30, 2008, 19:57 UTC · lore

Hi,

is there a document explaining the internals of GIT-SVN? I'd like to know, which SVN commands are executed in the background and how git-svn recognizes branch creation in SVN.

In particular I want to follow the repository at: http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/

The layout is like
/trunk
/stable
  |- 4.0
  |- 3.9
  |- 3.8
  ...
/releases
  |- 4.0
  |- 4.0r1
  |- 3.9
  |- 3.9r1
  |- 3.9r2

I do not know, whether git-svn can create branches automatically for each directory under /stable and one main branch for trunk or whether I need to create one svn-remote definition for every svn directory I want to track.

Best regards,

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Thomas Koch, Software Developer
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Young Media Concepts GmbH
Sonnenstr. 4
CH-8280 Kreuzlingen
Switzerland

Tel    +41 (0)71 / 508 24 86
Fax    +41 (0)71 / 560 53 89
Mobile +49 (0)170 / 753 89 16
Web    www.ymc.ch

Brian Gernhardt· Jun 30, 2008, 20:57 UTC · re: Thomas Koch · lore

Re: how does git svn work

On Jun 30, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Thomas Koch wrote:

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> In particular I want to follow the repository at:
> http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/
>
> The layout is like
> /trunk
> /stable
>  |- 4.0
>  |- 3.9
>  |- 3.8
>  ...
> /releases
>  |- 4.0
>  |- 4.0r1
>  |- 3.9
>  |- 3.9r1
>  |- 3.9r2
>
>
> I do not know, whether git-svn can create branches automatically for
> each directory under /stable and one main branch for trunk or  
> whether I
> need to create one svn-remote definition for every svn directory I  
> want
> to track.

I'm not sure what commands git-svn uses, but it looks like the following command should work:

git svn clone --trunk=trunk --tags=releases --branches=stable http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/ 
  nextgen

That should create a nextgen git repository with a master branch following SVN stable, and automatically grabbing anything under stable or releases as a new branch. (I actually marked releases as a tag but I think git-svn treats them as branches, since they can change on the SVN side.)

~~ Brian