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From: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Subject: Re: How to clone git repository with git-svn meta-data included?
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:03:44 +1100
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:43:32AM -0800, Jacob Helwig wrote:
> I use git-svn quite a bit at $work, but I haven't seen a way to clone
> a git repo, and have it Just Work(TM) with git-svn in the new clone,
> unfortunately.

At $work I nightly publish a .tar.gz file of a pristine git repo
synced from svn, with the metadata. So if a developer wants to start
using git they untar the file into their directory and start working,
and after that they have to do "git svn fetch" themselves.

Nick.