git-svn trouble finding all branches/tags

git-svn trouble finding all branches/tags

[Michael Fischer]

Scenario is initialization  of a local git repo from a remote
SVN repo.


$ git svn init -s https://svn.our.office/projname

$ git svn fetch
.........................

Now, git branch -r shows trunk, one branch, 3 tags. There ought to be
7 branches, and about 20 tags.

If I go into .git/svn/.metadata and change the 

branches-maxRev
tags-maxRev 

values to something much larger than anything in SVN (e.g. 1000000), 
and repeat 'git svn fetch', lather, rinse repeat, then I eventually
have all the branches and tags.

Surely this isn't the way its supposed to happen?

TIA.


Michael
-- 
Michael Fischer
michael@visv.net

Re: git-svn trouble finding all branches/tags

[Eric Wong]

Michael Fischer <michael@visv.net> wrote:
> 
> Scenario is initialization  of a local git repo from a remote
> SVN repo.
> 
> 
> $ git svn init -s https://svn.our.office/projname
> 
> $ git svn fetch
> .........................
> 
> Now, git branch -r shows trunk, one branch, 3 tags. There ought to be
> 7 branches, and about 20 tags.
> 
> If I go into .git/svn/.metadata and change the 
> 
> branches-maxRev
> tags-maxRev 
> 
> values to something much larger than anything in SVN (e.g. 1000000), 
> and repeat 'git svn fetch', lather, rinse repeat, then I eventually
> have all the branches and tags.
> 
> Surely this isn't the way its supposed to happen?

No, I've never actually heard of this problem.  Which version of git-svn
are you using?

Without further details about your repository layout, I'm not sure how
to help you, either.  Is there anything non-standard in your layout
or how the repository was created?

Thanks.

-- 
Eric Wong

Re: git-svn trouble finding all branches/tags

[Michael Fischer]

On Sun, May 11, Eric Wong wrote:
> Michael Fischer <michael@visv.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Scenario is initialization  of a local git repo from a remote
> > SVN repo.
> > 
> > 
> > $ git svn init -s https://svn.our.office/projname
> > 
> > $ git svn fetch
> > .........................
> > 
> > Now, git branch -r shows trunk, one branch, 3 tags. There ought to be
> > 7 branches, and about 20 tags.
> > 
> > If I go into .git/svn/.metadata and change the 
> > 
> > branches-maxRev
> > tags-maxRev 
> > 
> > values to something much larger than anything in SVN (e.g. 1000000), 
> > and repeat 'git svn fetch', lather, rinse repeat, then I eventually
> > have all the branches and tags.
> > 
> > Surely this isn't the way its supposed to happen?
> 
> No, I've never actually heard of this problem.  Which version of git-svn
> are you using?
> 
> Without further details about your repository layout, I'm not sure how
> to help you, either.  Is there anything non-standard in your layout
> or how the repository was created?

1.5.4 (or maybe 1.5.5 - I can't log in there right now, but it was 
"latest" as of the date of my original mail).

As far as I know, there's nothing odd in the SVN layout. It has
branches under branches/, tags under tags/, etc...

Now.... my boss did his first attempt by making an SVK copy of the 
SVN repo to his laptop, took that home over the weekend, and the
'git svn fetch' got everything from SVK just fine on the first go.

Not an SVN or SVK expert here, so I'm not sure how that might be
usefully informative or not.. but I thought I'd mention it.


Michael
-- 
Michael Fischer
michael@visv.net