These instructions tell you how to create a clone of a repository created with git-svn, that can in turn be used with git-svn. Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@xxxxxxxxx> --- > gitster: (3) you prepare one git-svn managed git repository, allow others to > clone it via git, and have each of these cloned git repositories to interact > with svn via git-svn -- this third mode of operation is not supported. > > spearce: be nice if someone who cared about git-svn supporting (3) either wrote > a patch for the documentation, or taught the tool how to do this more > automatically. Here's that patch. Maybe I'll get around to Shawn's second (far more ideal) suggestion sometime. Documentation/git-svn.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 0a210e4..3e3b597 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -435,6 +435,25 @@ Tracking and contributing to an entire Subversion-managed project # of dcommit/rebase/show-ignore should be the same as above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +The initial 'git-svn clone' Subversion can be quite time-consuming (especially +for large repositories). If multiple people (or one person with multiple +machines) want to use git-svn to interact with the same Subversion repository, +you can do the initial 'git-svn clone' to a repository on a server and have +each person clone that repository with 'git clone': + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +# Do the initial import on a server + ssh server "cd /pub && git-svn clone http://svn.foo.org/project +# Clone locally + git clone server:/pub/project +# Tell git-svn which branch contains the Subversion commits + git update-ref refs/remotes/git-svn origin/master +# Initialize git-svn locally (be sure to use the same URL and -T/-b/-t options as were used on server) + git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project +# Pull the latest changes from Subversion + git-svn rebase +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + REBASE VS. PULL/MERGE --------------------- -- 1.5.2.2 - 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
