Re: git-svn questions: how to clone/init non-standard layout branches/tags?

["Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>]

On Nov 3, 2007 9:01 PM, Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> > On Nov 3, 2007 11:56 AM, Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
> >> On Nov 3, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Luke Lu wrote:
> >>> 2. Is there a way to add a new svn branch like that (say production
> >>> or some_branch) to an existing git-svn repository that has trunk
> >>> cloned?
> >>
> >> I don't know, but that'd be great indeed.
> >>
> >
> > You can simply add "fetch" lines to  the relevant "svn-remote" section
> > in .git/config.
>
> I did try to add a "fetch" line for the production branch like this:
>
> [svn-remote "svn"]
>          url = svn+ssh://host/svn/project
>          fetch = production:refs/remotes/svn-prod
>          fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/git-svn
>
> which is modeled after http://lists-archives.org/git/420712-git-svn-
> remote-tracking-branch-question.html
>
> But when I try to checkout the production branch like this:
>
> git checkout -b prod remotes/svn-prod
>
> I got this:
> git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/
> forcing
> Did you intend to checkout 'remotes/svn-prod' which can not be
> resolved as commit?

Did you forget to run 'git svn fetch' after modifying your .git/config?

--
larsh