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

3 messages from 2010-04-27 to 2010-04-27. Participants: Ping Yin, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23618

## Ping Yin, 2010-04-27 09:48

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

```

## Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2010-04-27 14:51

Subject: Re: How to continue to run 'git svn fetch' for a repo with no git-svn metadata
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:48, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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## Ping Yin, 2010-04-27 16:04

Subject: Re: How to continue to run 'git svn fetch' for a repo with no git-svn metadata
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/n2p46dff0321004270904gc590ef83v4b338719c4c18637%40mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

```