# git-svn: How dependent is the git-svn repository on the Subversion repository URL?

2 messages from 2010-09-12 to 2010-09-12. Participants: Daniel Trebbien, Peter Baumann.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25078

## Daniel Trebbien, 2010-09-12 01:29

Subject: git-svn: How dependent is the git-svn repository on the Subversion repository URL?
Message-ID: <loom.20100912T032208-79@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20100912T032208-79%40post.gmane.org

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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?

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## Peter Baumann, 2010-09-12 06:57

Subject: Re: git-svn: How dependent is the git-svn repository on the Subversion repository URL?
Message-ID: <20100912065712.GA11407@m62s10.vlinux.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100912065712.GA11407%40m62s10.vlinux.de
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100912T032208-79@post.gmane.org>

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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 01:29:52AM +0000, Daniel Trebbien wrote:
> 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/mirror

After 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.

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