# how does git svn work

2 messages from 2008-06-30 to 2008-06-30. Participants: Thomas Koch, Brian Gernhardt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14230

## Thomas Koch, 2008-06-30 19:57

Subject: how does git svn work
Message-ID: <200806302157.32828.thomas@koch.ro>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200806302157.32828.thomas%40koch.ro

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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,
-- 
Thomas Koch, Software Developer
http://www.koch.ro

Young Media Concepts GmbH
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Tel    +41 (0)71 / 508 24 86
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-- 
Thomas Koch, Software Developer
http://www.koch.ro

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

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## Brian Gernhardt, 2008-06-30 20:57

Subject: Re: how does git svn work
Message-ID: <02EDA057-6DE9-4038-ACDA-8763BE0A0D0C@silverinsanity.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/02EDA057-6DE9-4038-ACDA-8763BE0A0D0C%40silverinsanity.com
In-Reply-To: <200806302157.32828.thomas@koch.ro>

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

> 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

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