From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Oliver Charles" Subject: Best practices for maintaining a subversion mirror? Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:55:55 +0000 Message-ID: <5641883d0811240255i21aef729ld202bd5a3211dad9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 24 11:57:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L4Z7x-0005hh-E7 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:57:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750913AbYKXKz5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:55:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751000AbYKXKz5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:55:57 -0500 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.25]:17053 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855AbYKXKz5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:55:57 -0500 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so339393qwe.37 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:55:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=qBEuO4oO/eFVxIth2uvqb85dwifMDTerLgsTy7/txGM=; b=aQ0cETa96kA4WASZ305rPLBhWGNTavrMb99MPvegje3JmFafSXZOIqKVFzS0na+2hd NaBU7L+905JxBsJuP1CUok1fYk4313DsRXFLHcOZoKyF47Jj1MwMaVj7qe6MG/nJeOdW cqT5FwQz/Ub39aGYCwtN6z2qRedQOc4uh3adQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=pnec8a/PSE+qpHuXJm/z1IAcNVXZrWkBmw9+KEzeaaVuzxyvoskibcutcC51KwRQCf jfmLLJ1DZ06dhB2mspa1bGMJhczqXMEnoKIbawilQEZJwMowhX8CziSpQkoL7ott1uzF qubpumrkH5+8m+Nl8b78ZgtlVoKsDM5HXqlNs= Received: by 10.214.10.2 with SMTP id 2mr1834995qaj.266.1227524155881; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:55:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.214.183.9 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:55:55 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I just got myself a new server, and as I'm the major Git-using person at my work, I'd like to set a mirror of our Subversion repository up to hopefully convert a few more people. At the moment, I've done git svn clone http://svn..., and then git clone --bare to make a --bare version of this clone. Now that I have this mirror, I have this entry in my crontab to update it hourly: 0 * * * * cd /.git && /usr/bin/git --git-dir=. svn fetch && /usr/bin/git update-ref refs/heads/master refs/remotes/git-svn This seems to be working nicely as a readonly interface, but when I clone this repository (git clone git://foo/repo.git) - served via git-daemon - I can't seem to get svn rebase to work on it, which means I can't dcommit my changes back to Subversion. Am I doing things generally the right way, or am I doing it completely wrong? :-) Any tips appreciated! - Oliver Charles