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From: "Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Subject: [PATCH resend] Documentation: git-svn: fix example for centralized SVN clone
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:45:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081114184514.6f7d437a@perceptron> (raw)

The example that tells users how to centralize the effort of the initial
git svn clone operation doesn't work properly. It uses rebase but that
only works if HEAD exists. This adds one extra command to create a
somewhat sensible HEAD that should work in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
---
When I first sent this one I said I didn't like the solution all that
much (it would be nicer to use origin/HEAD but we didn't fetch that)
but Eric said he thinks it's okay and the original author of the
section hasn't piped in. It's still better than a nonfunctional example
in any case.

Previous discussion at
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/100472>.

 Documentation/git-svn.txt |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 84c8f3c..ba94cd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ have each person clone that repository with 'git-clone':
 	git remote add origin server:/pub/project
 	git config --add remote.origin.fetch '+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*'
 	git fetch
+# Create a local branch from one of the branches just fetched
+	git checkout -b master FETCH_HEAD
 # Initialize git-svn locally (be sure to use the same URL and -T/-b/-t options as were used on server)
 	git svn init http://svn.example.com/project
 # Pull the latest changes from Subversion
-- 
1.6.0.3.578.g6a50

             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-14 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-14 17:45 Jan Krüger [this message]
2008-11-15  5:49 ` [PATCH resend] Documentation: git-svn: fix example for centralized SVN clone Junio C Hamano
2008-11-15  6:30   ` Eric Wong
2008-11-15  7:56     ` Junio C Hamano

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