# git svn relocate [SCRIPT] 4 messages from 2010-06-22 to 2010-06-23. Participants: Christian Stimming, Jakub Narebski, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Eric Wong. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24166 ## Christian Stimming, 2010-06-22 09:40 Subject: git svn relocate [SCRIPT] Message-ID: <20100622114043.1419733jtkx6m0co@webmail.tu-harburg.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100622114043.1419733jtkx6m0co%40webmail.tu-harburg.de ``` Dear all, I haven't found an easy solution for when a git-svn SVN server changes its address, but I think the attached patch implements a solution useful for others as well. In plain svn this is the "svn switch --relocate URL1 URL2" command to change the URL of a working copy from URL1 to URL2. In git-svn, there didn't seem to be a suitable command available. What I found were the instructions here http://translate.org.za/blogs/wynand/en/content/changing-your-svn-repository-address-git-svn-setup and some other google hits related to this one. The instructions from the wynand blog uses git-filter-branch, and the instructions were complete enough so that an all-in-one shell script wasn't too difficult to write. So the attached script implements this: Just call "git-svn-relocate URL1 URL2" and all the rest should happen automatically. Hope this helps. Regards, Christian Stimming ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2010-06-22 13:15 Subject: Re: git svn relocate [SCRIPT] Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3r5jznr9z.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <20100622114043.1419733jtkx6m0co@webmail.tu-harburg.de> ``` Christian Stimming writes: > Dear all, > > I haven't found an easy solution for when a git-svn SVN server changes > its address, but I think the attached patch implements a solution > useful for others as well. > > In plain svn this is the "svn switch --relocate URL1 URL2" command to > change the URL of a working copy from URL1 to URL2. In git-svn, there > didn't seem to be a suitable command available. What I found were the > instructions here > http://translate.org.za/blogs/wynand/en/content/changing-your-svn-repository-address-git-svn-setup > and some other google hits related to this one. The instructions from > the wynand blog uses git-filter-branch, and the instructions were > complete enough so that an all-in-one shell script wasn't too > difficult to write. So the attached script implements this: Just call > "git-svn-relocate URL1 URL2" and all the rest should happen > automatically. If you can put this script somewhere (e.g. GitHub, or repo.or.cz), could you please add information about it to InterfacesFriontendsAndTools page on Git Wiki (http://git.wiki.kernel.org)? Alternatively, perhaps you could send it as a patch adding it to somwehere in the contrib/ -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2010-06-22 15:11 Subject: Re: git svn relocate [SCRIPT] Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTil6VEPqJxp4wiE7f25zmrnZ9vS1M-f4tFuV4pMO%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 13:15, Jakub Narebski wrote: > If you can put this script somewhere (e.g. GitHub, or repo.or.cz), could you > please add information about it to InterfacesFriontendsAndTools page on Git > Wiki (http://git.wiki.kernel.org)? > > Alternatively, perhaps you could send it as a patch adding it to somwehere > in the contrib/ This is part of the "Reconstructing git-svn metadata after a git clone"[1] problem for which there's an open thread. You have to rewrite history using git-filter-branch to fix the branch references if you need to change the SVN URL. It would be nice if you could specify that sed replacement in some git-svn config file if you needed to change e.g. someone's http:// clone to a svn+ssh:// clone without rewriting the whole thing. Would that sort of thing be possible? Eric? http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/5/8/30062 ``` ## Eric Wong, 2010-06-23 09:53 Subject: Re: git svn relocate [SCRIPT] Message-ID: <20100623095303.GA19651@dcvr.yhbt.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100623095303.GA19651%40dcvr.yhbt.net In-Reply-To: ``` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 13:15, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > If you can put this script somewhere (e.g. GitHub, or repo.or.cz), could you > > please add information about it to InterfacesFriontendsAndTools page on Git > > Wiki (http://git.wiki.kernel.org)? > > > > Alternatively, perhaps you could send it as a patch adding it to somwehere > > in the contrib/ > > This is part of the "Reconstructing git-svn metadata after a git > clone"[1] problem for which there's an open thread. You have to > rewrite history using git-filter-branch to fix the branch references > if you need to change the SVN URL. > > It would be nice if you could specify that sed replacement in some > git-svn config file if you needed to change e.g. someone's http:// > clone to a svn+ssh:// clone without rewriting the whole thing. > > Would that sort of thing be possible? Eric? > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/5/8/30062 Does the existing rewriteRoot configuration option work for this? (I had almost forgotten about it myself :x) -- Eric Wong ```