# Error : git svn fetch

2 messages from 2008-12-23 to 2009-01-08. Participants: chongyc, Eric Wong.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16848

## chongyc, 2008-12-23 12:25

Subject: Error : git svn fetch
Message-ID: <E48CF49FF0FE4F96BE206B2689165AF9@VMware>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E48CF49FF0FE4F96BE206B2689165AF9%40VMware

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Hi

I found that 'git svn fetch' failed in cloning the hudson svn reposotory.

I want to git-clone the svn repository

svn repository URL : https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/
username : guest
password :


So I run followings to git-clone

[root@localhost hudson]# git --version
git version 1.6.0.6
[root@localhost hudson]# git svn init -T trunk -t tags -b branches 
https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/
[root@localhost hudson]# git svn fetch
Found possible branch point: 
https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/tags/hudson-1_230 => 
https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/branches/buildnav-1636, 10490
Initializing parent: buildnav-1636@10490
Found possible branch point: 
https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/trunk/hudson/main => 
https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/tags/hudson-1_230, 10450
Initializing parent: buildnav-1636@10450
Found branch parent: (buildnav-1636@10490) a1c395e5db063ca1ffbbe008e309c5
11d56219e0
Following parent with do_switch
remoting/pom.xml was not found in commit 
a1c395e5db063ca1ffbbe008e309c511d56219e0 (r10447)
[root@localhost hudson]#

What shall I do to git-clone it ?

Please help me

>From chongyc 

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## Eric Wong, 2009-01-08 02:55

Subject: Re: Error : git svn fetch
Message-ID: <20090108025554.GA28599@dcvr.yhbt.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090108025554.GA28599%40dcvr.yhbt.net
In-Reply-To: <E48CF49FF0FE4F96BE206B2689165AF9@VMware>

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chongyc <chongyc27@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I found that 'git svn fetch' failed in cloning the hudson svn reposotory.
> 
> I want to git-clone the svn repository
> 
> svn repository URL : https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/
> username : guest
> password :
> 
> 
> So I run followings to git-clone
> 
> [root@localhost hudson]# git --version
> git version 1.6.0.6
> [root@localhost hudson]# git svn init -T trunk -t tags -b branches 
> https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/
> [root@localhost hudson]# git svn fetch
> Found possible branch point: 
> https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/tags/hudson-1_230 => 
> https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/branches/buildnav-1636, 10490
> Initializing parent: buildnav-1636@10490
> Found possible branch point: 
> https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/trunk/hudson/main => 
> https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/tags/hudson-1_230, 10450
> Initializing parent: buildnav-1636@10450
> Found branch parent: (buildnav-1636@10490) a1c395e5db063ca1ffbbe008e309c5
> 11d56219e0
> Following parent with do_switch
> remoting/pom.xml was not found in commit 
> a1c395e5db063ca1ffbbe008e309c511d56219e0 (r10447)
> [root@localhost hudson]#
> 
> What shall I do to git-clone it ?
> 
> Please help me

Hi, sorry for the late reply, I've been very distracted.

Looking at the hudson repository, the layout is non-standard and very
complex, with subdirectories being branched and tagged all over.  The
standard globbing that git-svn uses for most repositories does won't
work.  You'll have to map things manually:

[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson
        fetch = trunk/hudson:refs/remotes/trunk
        fetch = branches/tom:refs/remotes/tom
	...

Alternately, you could just clone the root and have all the branches all
over the place in one tree (your eventually working copy will be huge).

  git svn clone https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson


Basically this is the equivalent of:

  svn co https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson

Except you'll have the full history.

-- 
Eric Wong

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