Re: git-svn: importing branches later

[Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:51:10AM -0700, Seth Falcon wrote:
> Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:
> 
> > On 2007-05-07 13:07:06 -0600, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> >
> >> Now I want to import the 'foo' branch from the same SVN repo without
> >> grabbing all the branches. Any suggestions?
> >
> > I seem to recall that just adding another "fetch" line to the git-svn
> > configuration in .git/config will do this for you.
> 
> Yes, this should work.  As long as you started out with a fairly
> recent git (sorry, I don't know how recent is needed) you should have
> in your repository a git/config file containing something like:
> 
>     [svn-remote "svn"]
>     	url = http://main.svn.url.com/
>     	fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/git-svn
>     	fetch = branches/b1:refs/remotes/b1  <-- this line added by you

Thanks Seth and Karl, that does indeed work.

I noticed that after changing .git/config and running fetch, git-svn
retrieves the log for the entire project (presumably because it doesn't
know when the new branch was created).  In one project with ~30,000
revisions, I found it beneficial to specify "git svn fetch -r
12345:HEAD" where revision 12345 is somewhere close to and before the
point at which the new branch was created from trunk.  That makes the
initial fetch must faster.

-- 
Michael