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How to continue to run 'git svn fetch' for a repo with no git-svn metadata

Subject: How to continue to run 'git svn fetch' for a repo with no git-svn metadata

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3 messages between Apr 27, 2010 and Apr 27, 2010.

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Ping Yin· Apr 27, 2010, 09:48 UTC · lore

I cloned a repo from a central repo which is mirrored by git-svn. Now i want to mirror the svn in the cloned local repo by myself, however, i don't have the git-svn metadata (which is in the central repo). What should i do to run "git svn fetch" without refetching all the versions?

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason· Apr 27, 2010, 14:51 UTC · re: Ping Yin · lore

Re: How to continue to run 'git svn fetch' for a repo with no git-svn metadata

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:48, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I cloned a repo from a central repo which is mirrored by git-svn. Now
> i want to mirror the svn in the cloned local repo by myself, however,
> i don't have the git-svn metadata (which is in the central repo). What
> should i do to run "git svn fetch" without refetching all the
> versions?

Read these:

    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/UsingGit#Initial_Setup
    http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/git-svn-tutorial

This should probably be in the git-svn documentation itself.

Ping Yin· Apr 27, 2010, 16:04 UTC · re: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason · lore

Re: How to continue to run 'git svn fetch' for a repo with no git-svn metadata

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Read these:
>
>    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/UsingGit#Initial_Setup
>    http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/git-svn-tutorial
>
> This should probably be in the git-svn documentation itself.

Thanks. The last link explains very clear. I just copy and paste from it.

Adding git-svn metadata to the github clone

If you want to re-populate the SVN metadata that can quickly be done by taking your up-to-date clone of leto's repo off of gihub and adding this to your .git/config

    [svn-remote "svn"]
            url = https://svn.parrot.org/parrot
            fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
Then run this command to find the "top commit"

     git show origin/upstream | head -n 1
and put that commit hash into a file .git/refs/remotes/trunk
(obviously replace the has with the one from the above command)

     echo c85aaa38b99cedb087e5f6fb69ce6d4a6ac57a0b > .git/refs/remotes/trunk
and finally

     git svn fetch