Re: git-svn: pulling from local mirror but committing via svn+ssh

[Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>]

Eric Wong wrote:
>> i have local (fast) mirrors of the svn trees i use, so i normally keep
>> everything pointing at those.  when i need to commit, i use `svn
>> switch --relocate ...` to flip to the svn+ssh master, and then flop
>> back to the local mirror.  it actually works out nicely.
> Can useSvmProps handle this?  I honestly forgot how that stuff
> was supposed to work with SVK/svn-mirror.

It's precisely this use case.  If you are syncing with SVN::Mirror, part
of SVK, or via svnsync, these tools leave breadcrumbs as svn properties
that point to where the repository was copied from.  So, in your commit
log the message will be the URL of the immediately[*] upstream
repository.  SVN didn't ever really support clone per se, what did you
use to copy the repository?

One thing that isn't documented to my knowledge is that you can use 'git
commit --amend' to alter the URL in the 'git-svn-id:' in the commit
message of the top commit as a crude form of grafting.  If the master
repository changes URL or UUID that's probably what you'd have to do.
But in your case, you probably want to figure out which switches you're
missing.

Sam.

* - Usually these tools don't allow for more than one level of indirection

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> Mike:
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> On the other hand, there's little point in keeping local mirrors around
> when using git-svn since git already does that for you :)
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