Re: How to use git-svn to clone from a mirror?

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Raja R Harinath wrote:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I have used something like
> >
> > git-svn clone -T trunk -b branches -t tags file:///tmp/rsync-mirror
> >
> > to clone an rsync mirror of an SVN repository.  Now I want to have 
> > fetch revert to pulling from the upstream repository in future. 
> > However, if I change the respective line in .git/config to 
> > svn://the.svn.link/whatever, git-rebase will fetch the right updates, 
> > but then says that it can't work with the objects in the git 
> > repository.
> >
> > Changing the config back will make git-rebase -l work.
> >
> > So what would be the right procedure to shift the SVN source from an
> > rsync mirror to the original, without git-svn breaking?
> 
> I think you'll have to
> 
> -------------8<------------
>   # remove stored revision db, since we're going to change all the commit ids
>   rm .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db.*
> 
>   # rewrite git-svn-id: lines
>   cg-admin-rewritehist \
> 	--msg-filter \
> 	'sed "s,file:///tmp/rsync-mirror,svn://the.svn.link/whatever,"'
> 
>   # recreate new revision db, and fetch updates, if any
>   git-svn rebase
> -------------8<------------

<shameless plug>
	Or you use the just-rewritten version of it, git-filter-branch.
</shameless>

Ciao,
Dscho