Re: Branches with git-svn

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com>]

On ven, 2008-09-19 at 14:35 +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Xavier Claessens venit, vidit, dixit 19.09.2008 12:15:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I created a git repository using "git-svn clone <url>" a long time ago.
> > But now I realise that I don't get SVN branches into my git repository.
> > I see that the doc tells to use "git clone -t tags -b branches -T trunk
> > <url>" to create the repository. If I create a new repository with that
> > command, I get branches and tags.
> > 
> > However I have lots of contributors having branches based on my git
> > repository. Is there a way to add SVN branch to my existing git repo?
> 
> If you haven't use those options back then, then what was the svn repo
> structure - no trunk, just main?
> Did you change the structure now?
> 
> If you git-svn fetch from that new structure then all your new branches
> etc. will show up as subdirectories, which is most certainly not what
> you want.
> 
> So, what was the structure in svn like before, and have your
> contributors based their branches on the mis-imported new structure already?

Hi,

Thanks for your email, but Björn Steinbrink on IRC solved my problem.
For the record what I did is:
1) make a new "git svn clone -t tags -b branches -T trunk <url>"
2) copy/past the description of the "svn" remote in .git/config from the
new clone into my old repository. Just replaced, in right part of the
fetch line, "trunk" by "git-svn"
3) "git svn fetch" imported all branches correctly based on the commits
I already have.

Thanks to all git and git-svn developers to make my life easier!

Xavier Claessens.