Steven Walter wrote: > Knowing just enough of what git-svn is doing to be dangerous, I > whipped up a short little patch. This patch seems to work for the > common case, and avoids fetching every file from subversion. It does > break sometimes, however, and I don't understand why. > > Maybe someone with a better grasps of the code can see what I did > wrong, or suggest a better means to my end? Try also with the SVN trunk - the do_switch API has recently been added and it also avoids this excess checkout. I'm not sure why a solution like you post isn't used, perhaps Eric can comment further. Sam. > diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl > index 484b057..1bc92b6 100755 > --- a/git-svn.perl > +++ b/git-svn.perl > @@ -1848,9 +1848,10 @@ sub find_parent_branch { > $self->full_url, $ed) > or die "SVN connection failed somewhere...\n"; > } else { > + $self->assert_index_clean($parent); > print STDERR "Following parent with do_update\n"; > $ed = SVN::Git::Fetcher->new($self); > - $self->ra->gs_do_update($rev, $rev, $self, $ed) > + $self->ra->gs_do_update($rev, $r0, $self, $ed) > or die "SVN connection failed somewhere...\n"; > } > print STDERR "Successfully followed parent\n"; - 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