# git-svn and sharing a single subversion repo to multiple clients

2 messages from 2010-02-12 to 2010-02-18. Participants: Duncan Ferguson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22623

## Duncan Ferguson, 2010-02-12 08:13

Subject: git-svn and sharing a single subversion repo to multiple clients
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Hiya list,

The git-svn man page has a section on setting up a single git-svn repository and sharing it out so multiple clients can then clone it (in the section in 'BASIC EXAMPLES', starting at "The initial git-svn clone can be quite time-consuming ....").

I have tried following this but it does not work for me on 1.6.3.3

My situation is my company has a subversion repository that takes a significant amount of time to git-svn clone (many hours) due to the length of time its been used.  I work across a number of dev servers all using the same single subversion repo and dev servers are semi-regularly rebuilt.  I'd like to check out the subversion repo once on a 'stable' server and then git clone it to all the dev servers to speed up creating a new dev server (and reduce disk space), but also be able to pull any new subversion commits and also push new commits back.

What is the best/correct way of setting this up as I cannot find any other docs apart from the section in the git-svn man page that doesn't work?

Thanks

  Duncs
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## Duncan Ferguson, 2010-02-18 11:35

Subject: Re: git-svn and sharing a single subversion repo to multiple clients
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On 12 Feb 2010, at 08:13, Duncan Ferguson wrote:
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> The git-svn man page has a section on setting up a single git-svn repository and sharing it out so multiple clients can then clone it (in the section in 'BASIC EXAMPLES', starting at "The initial git-svn clone can be quite time-consuming ....").
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> I have tried following this but it does not work for me on 1.6.3.3
> 
> My situation is my company has a subversion repository that takes a significant amount of time to git-svn clone (many hours) due to the length of time its been used.  I work across a number of dev servers all using the same single subversion repo and dev servers are semi-regularly rebuilt.  I'd like to check out the subversion repo once on a 'stable' server and then git clone it to all the dev servers to speed up creating a new dev server (and reduce disk space), but also be able to pull any new subversion commits and also push new commits back.
> 
> What is the best/correct way of setting this up as I cannot find any other docs apart from the section in the git-svn man page that doesn't work?

For anyone else looking to do this I found some details on the wiki at: http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_do_I_mirror_a_SVN_repository_to_git.3F - the wiki was being moved when i first asked so I didn't find it then - and it appears to be struggling now...

  Duncs
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