Re: Split a subversion repo into several git repos

["Patrick Doyle" <wpdster@gmail.com>]

On 10/11/07, Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> wrote:
> I have a slightly different layout to you -
>
> projectA/trunk
> projectA/branches
> projectA/tags
> projectB/trunk
> projectB/branches
> projectB/tags
> etc
>
> - but I've been creating separate git repos from that with (for
> example) :
>
> git-svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk http://svn.host.com/projectA
> git-svn fetch
>
Just be aware that, if you follow this approach, the commit logs
created by git-svn will be rewritten (relative to the original SVN
logs) with the SVN repository revision and ID information.  I believe
you can disable this behavior by passing the --no-metadata option to
"git-svn init", but I haven't tried this yet.

I also believe that this approach will leave your git repository in
such as state as to recognize that there is a remote repository from
which this repository was fetched.  I have no idea what implications
and long term repercussions (if any) this has.  It just dawned on me
as I was rereading the git-svn man page to look for the --no-metdata
option and read that it will "Set the noMetadata option in the
[svn-remote] config".  Most of that is still Greek to me.

--wpd