On 10/28/2010 09:02 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Thu, 28.10.2010 at 16:58:28 +0000, H Krishnan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I think I resolved this problem by using --rewrite-root as suggested. I used a >> dummy root during the git-svn clone: >> >> git-svn clone --rewrite-root http://git.is.great <myrepo> >> >> All my commit messages now have http://git.is.great but I am able to change the >> repository URL and continue. >> >> Could this approach be used as an insurance against svn url changes? When >> initializing the repository, we could use --rewrite-root. Subsequently, if the >> svn repository relocates, we need to edit only .git/config. > > Yes, that's exactly what the rewrite-url was introduced for, you can > even clone from a local svnsync mirror (iff the UUID matches, you have > to setup the mirror in a special way ...). > > So, every developer must use: > > $ git svn clone --rewrite-root CANONICAL-URL-NEVER-TO-CHANGE <whatever-url-is-convenient> > > Oh, and all devs must use the same authormap (or no authormap at all). > > hth, > Uli FYI, I just learned [1] that git-svn even has a --rewrite-uuid option. [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html -Mathias -- 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