Re: git svn fails to work

[Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 14:43, Aaron Gray
<aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Aaron Gray
>> <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been tying for a week to get git svn to work. If i do a 'git
>>> clone'
>>> and if falls over 'git svn fetch' picks up from where it left off, but on
>>> completion I can only see the older stuff if at all and a 'git clone
>>> rebase'
>>> eithr shoud up unreconsilable differences or refuses to execute the
>>> command
>>> at all, gust giving uphelpfull help afaics.
>>
>> I am afraid if you expect anyone to help you with you, you have to spend
>> a little more time to describe your problem. You have not mentioned what
>> version of Git you use, what operating system, what is layout of your SVN
>> repo, what commands and with what options you used and what was their
>> output. Without that information no one will be able to help you...
>>
>>> Otherwise I am giving up and either going back to svn or over to
>>> mercurial.
>>
>> Yeah, right... These kind of threats will make people who want to help to
>> come running....
>
> Sorry, but I am very frustrated with the whole thing, there is not real user
> guides for git-svn other that third party ones which seem to be wrong.
>
> I am using Fedora 10, GIT 1.6.0.6, the svn repo is standard layout although
> I only want trunk, it here :-
>
>   svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm
>
> This is quite a big repository 65000 or more revisions.
>
> The commands
>
>   git svn clone http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk
>
> when connection fails I do a :-
>
>   git svn fetch
>
> gitweb is not updating at all to show any change in the repository.
>
> Aaron
>
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gitweb will only show your local branches.  git svn fetch will update
the remote branches associated with svn.  You'll need to create a
local tracking branch for the svn remote branch.