The example that tells users how to centralize the effort of the initial git svn clone operation doesn't work properly. It uses rebase but that only works if HEAD exists. This adds one extra command to create a somewhat sensible HEAD that should work in all cases. Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@xxxxx> --- When I first sent this one I said I didn't like the solution all that much (it would be nicer to use origin/HEAD but we didn't fetch that) but Eric said he thinks it's okay and the original author of the section hasn't piped in. It's still better than a nonfunctional example in any case. Previous discussion at <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/100472>. Documentation/git-svn.txt | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 84c8f3c..ba94cd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ have each person clone that repository with 'git-clone': git remote add origin server:/pub/project git config --add remote.origin.fetch '+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*' git fetch +# Create a local branch from one of the branches just fetched + git checkout -b master FETCH_HEAD # 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.example.com/project # Pull the latest changes from Subversion -- 1.6.0.3.578.g6a50 -- 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