If I initialize the git-svn repository by passing in the location of a local mirror, as in: git svn init -s file:///path/to/mirror and proceed to fetch all revisions from the mirror, may I simply change the `url = ` line of `.git/config` to make it point to the real repository, or is the git repository that is created by git-svn dependent on the original URL that was specified in the initialization?
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git-svn: How dependent is the git-svn repository on the Subversion repository URL?
Subject: git-svn: How dependent is the git-svn repository on the Subversion repository URL?
Re: git-svn: How dependent is the git-svn repository on the Subversion repository URL?
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 01:29:52AM +0000, Daniel Trebbien wrote:
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> If I initialize the git-svn repository by passing in the location of a local > mirror, as in: > git svn init -s file:///path/to/mirror > and proceed to fetch all revisions from the mirror, may I simply change the > `url = ` line of `.git/config` to make it point to the real repository, or is > the git repository that is created by git-svn dependent on the original URL that > was specified in the initialization? >
Changing only the url in the config does won't work, because git-svn appends a line to every commit message which includes the SVN URL. But If I remember correctly, putting something like this into the config file *will* work
[svn-remote "svn"]
rewriteRoot = svn://url/to/pubic/svn/server
url = file:///path/to/mirrorAfter the initial import you could exchange the url with the rewriteRoot url and remove the later entry completly.
So have a look at --rewrite-root in the git svn manpage.