I have a clone of a repo that is itself a git-svn clone: git://git.chromium.org/chromium.git So my .git/config has (obviously): [remote "origin"] url = git://git.chromium.org/chromium.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* The upstream repo has only trunk. I want to use git-svn to add an additional branch: http://src.chromium.org/svn/branches/249/ So I added this to my .git/config: [svn-remote "svn"] url = http://src.chromium.org/svn fetch = branches/249/src:refs/remotes/branches/249 I looked up the branch point for 249 and created a new branch: $ svn log http://src.chromium.org/svn/branches/249 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r32060 | laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx | 2009-11-16 11:34:43 -0500 (Mon, 16 Nov 2009) | 1 line Branching for 249 @32041 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ git rev2sha | grep src@32041 bf6f4ed svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@32041 $ git checkout -b 249 bf6f4ed And then attempted a git svn fetch. Which wanted to grab the entire svn history. I then realized that the origin git clone is from a different upstream URL (to which I don't have access), so I tried adding rewriteRoot: [svn-remote "svn"] url = http://src.chromium.org/svn fetch = branches/249/src:refs/remotes/branches/249 rewriteRoot = svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome Same problem. Ah, UUID is also different. Unfortunately, git-svn doesn't have a "rewriteUUID" config (I'm working on a patch), but I did try hacking .git/svn/.metadata to look like this: [svn-remote "svn"] reposRoot = http://src.chromium.org/svn uuid = 4ff67af0-8c30-449e-8e8b-ad334ec8d88c svnsync-uuid = 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98 svnsync-url = svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome Then changed my .git/config to: [svn-remote "svn"] url = http://src.chromium.org/svn fetch = branches/249/src:refs/remotes/branches/249 useSvnsyncProps = true I blew away .git/svn/refs and tried again: $ git svn fetch Found possible branch point: http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src => http://src.chromium.org/svn/branches/249/src, 32041 Initializing parent: refs/remotes/branches/249@32041 r3 = c14d891d44f0afff64e56ed7c9702df1d807b1ee (refs/remotes/branches/249@32041) Sadly, git svn is still trying to fetch the entire history. Hmpfh. Any suggestions? Maybe I should just not worry about trying to have a connected history locally (I'll never be dcomitting) and just use git svn fetch -r 32041:HEAD ? j. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html