Re: git-svnimport

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Hi,

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Steven Walter wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > FYI you'll have to do something like this:
> > 
> > 	git svn init svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox
> > 	git svn fetch
> > 
> > to merge with current busybox (although I updated before I pushed).
> 
> More than that, you'll want to:
> 
>     git svn init <foo>
>     cp .git/refs/remotes/origin/master .git/refs/remotes/git-svn
>     git svn fetch
> 
> If git-svn doesn't find a remote named "git-svn" it will assume that it
> has no information about the repository and starting doing a full
> checkout.  By copying the ref, git-svn will see that there are already
> commits with git-svn-id lines and rebuild its "rev-db".  After that, it
> will incrementally update for newer revisions.
> 
> That ought to save you a few precious minutes :)

Good catch.  Thanks.

Ciao,
Dscho

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