RE: [RFH] git-svn documentation [was Re: git-svn and u-boot broken]

["Joakim Tjernlund" <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>]

> Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> wrote:
> > Eric Wong wrote:
> > > I would do something like this:
> > > 
> > > ... (same stuff as above before with svn setup...)
> > > git clone $ORG_REPO $GIT_REPO
> > > cd $GIT_REPO
> > > git-svn init "$REPO"/trunk
> > > git-svn fetch
> > > 
> > > # sync the SVN repo with initial-uboot
> > > # this will just commit a snapshot, without history, 
> which I assume
> > > # is what you want.
> > > git-branch initial-uboot f5e0d03970409feb3c77ab0107d5dece6b7d45c9
> > > git-svn commit initial-uboot
> > > git checkout -b svn-branch remotes/git-svn
> > > git-pull . tmcu2
> > > 
> > > # this should work assuming the path from 
> initial-uboot..tmcu2 is linear
> > > # use gitk initial-uboot..tmcu2 to check
> > > git-svn dcommit
> > 
> > Great! This was exactly what I wanted, thanks. I never 
> realized that one should
> > do git-svn commit initial-uboot to get that single commit.
> > I also replaced git-svn dcommit with git-svn commit 
> remotes/git-svn..svn-branch
> > as I don't have that version yet.
> > 
> > You should add this as an example I think.
> > 
> > Can I ask for an example that used multi-init and 
> multi-fetch? I tried, but
> > could not make it work.
> 
> git-svn multi-init https://svn.musicpd.org/mpd -T trunk -t tags -b branches
> git-svn multi-fetch

This is how far I got too(sorry for beeing unclear). It is the 
remaing bits that I got stuck on. How would the remaining git-svn
commands look like in the above example?

> 
> In the latest git-svn (should be in 1.4.3), you can re-run 'git-svn
> multi-init' with no arguments to discover new tags+branches.
> 
> Anybody willing to supply patches for better documentation?  I'll be
> quite busy with other projects the next two weeks, asciidoc is quite
> slow for me; but I'd like to have better docs for git-svn in 1.4.3.

That would be great, I am still very much in the dark.

 Jocke