Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.

[Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is really frustrating.
> > > 
> > > I have tried every combination of file://localhost/ file:///
> > > 
> > > This is what I get
> > > 
> > > git-svn clone file:///working/svn/network/wireshark/ -T trunk -b 
> > > branches -t tags wireshark Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ 
> > > Couldn't open a repository: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL: 
> > > Unable to open repository 'file:///working/svn/network/wireshark' at 
> > > /usr/bin/git-svn line 1048
> > > 
> > > > ls -la /working/svn/network/wireshark/
> > > total 16
> > > drwxr-xr-x  8 gerberb zenez  208 2008-06-10 12:44 .
> > > drwxr-xr-x  9 gerberb zenez  240 2008-06-12 13:00 ..
> > > drwxr-xr-x  6 gerberb zenez  240 2008-06-12 12:14 .svn
> > > drwxr-xr-x  6 gerberb zenez  152 2008-06-10 12:43 historic
> > > drwxr-xr-x  5 gerberb zenez  152 2008-06-10 12:46 prereleases
> > > drwxr-xr-x 86 gerberb zenez 2728 2008-06-10 12:37 releases
> > > drwxr-xr-x 26 gerberb zenez 7016 2008-06-10 12:39 trunk
> > > drwxr-xr-x 25 gerberb zenez 7136 2008-06-10 11:45 trunk-1.0
> > 
> > That looks like a SVN working copy, not an SVN repository. Maybe you 
> > want file:///master/svn/...?
> 
> I tried /master/svn/network/... as well.  Same results.  I can cd 
> /master/svn/network/... svn update and I get any updates from the URL.

That means it's a SVN working copy; SVN working copies don't contain the 
project history, so it's impossible to import from them. 

Basically, if you can't use your master copy for "svn co <URL>", you can't 
use it for "git svn".

> I really do not want to run web-dav.  I am able to do it if I run web-dav 
> and have my server as a svn master.  I have had security issues with 
> web-dav and I really want to avoid running it at all costs.

The SVN FAQ has information on running a SVN master without any web 
service. You should probably read that.

Alternatively, you could give up on having any local SVN-based storage, 
and have /master/svn/... be a git repository that you update from the 
upstream SVN server with "git svn".

	-Daniel
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