Orignally posted @ Git List <g...@vger.kernel.org>; no response :(
Hello list,
I have been using git-svn in an corporate environment where svn repo has
lot of branches, (lot means 100). To avoid cloning all branches my config
looks as below
[svn-remote "svn"]
url = svn+ssh://url
fetch = srcroot/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
branches = srcroot/branches/{branch_1, branch_2,
branch_3}:refs/remotes/*
Now, when a new branch of my interest is added in svn repo, I had like it
to be in my git-repo as well. In an ideal world, one shall simply add that
branch name to list in curly braces above, but that does not work. I had
love to be proved wrong here. Somebody on stackoverflow.com suggested (to
else's question, not
mine) to add one more "fetch" as show below.
[svn-remote "svn"]
url = svn+ssh://url
fetch = srcroot/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
fetch = srcroot/branch_4:refs/remotes/* # NEW BRANCH
branches = srcroot/branches/{branch_1, branch_2,
branch_3}:refs/remotes/*
Haven't tried it, neither do I like it.
I do have a solution which WORKS, it is modified version of an example from
\doc\git\html\git-svn.html page. Below I have pasted the example and
modified it to reflect my specifics.
# assume an existing git-svn repo
D:\sourcecode
# Clone locally - make sure the refs/remotes/ space matches the server
mkdir project
cd project
git init
git remote add origin file:///D:/sourcecode # file:// is delibrate,
want
true n/w behaviour
git config --replace-all remote.origin.fetch
'+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*'
git fetch
# Prevent fetch/pull from local git repo,
# we only want to use git svn for form here
git config --remove-section remote.origin
# 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
# edit config to include newly added branch in curly braces
# Pull the latest changes from Subversion
git svn fetch -r <recentish rev, say BEGIN:HEAD
Above works exactly as I want, except the last step of "git-svn fetch"
connects to svn repo for each revision from BEGIN to HEAD. I want fairly
long history (for pretty blame). Which implies my BEGIN is not so recentish
after all. Hence, it takes awfully long to finish, 2 days typically.
When GIT_TRACE is 1, below is output received
trace: exec: 'git-svn' 'fetch'
trace: run_command: 'git-svn' 'fetch'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.fetchall'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.parent'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.noauthcache'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get' 'svn.revision'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.nocheckout'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get' 'svn.authorsprog'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.followparent'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get' 'svn.authorsfile'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.useSvmProps'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get' 'svn.username'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get' 'svn.repackflags'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.localtime'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--int' '--get'
'svn.repack'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get' 'svn.ignorepaths'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--int' '--get'
'svn.logwindowsize'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.quiet'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get' 'svn.ignorerefs'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get' 'svn.configdir'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.addauthorfrom'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.useSvnsyncProps'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.noMetadata'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' '--get'
'svn.uselogauthor'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--symbolic' '--all'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '-l'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '-l'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--bool' 'svn.useSvmProps'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '-l'
trace: built-in: git 'config' 'svn-remote.svn.branches-maxRev'
'524908'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '--pretty=raw'
'--reverse'
'9f1414be94ab007b62ace31bf4d210a069276127..refs/remotes/branch_1'
'--'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '--pretty=raw'
'--reverse'
'5eb0a454bcf066a8199b851add9ec07cde80119d..refs/remotes/branch_2'
'--'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '--pretty=raw'
'--reverse'
'383b68b8514010a71efe10821e5ccc3541903ceb..refs/remotes/branch_3'
'--'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-list' '--pretty=raw'
'--reverse'
'89fe1a1d2cfca0886003f043c408fb5afadfec93..refs/remotes/trunk'
'--'
I keep an watch for "svn-remote.svn.branches-maxRev", this serves as
my progress. This wait is too much for a simple branch. Though, I must point
out, day feels fresh once it finishes :) Does any one know any for this?
If you paid attention this is Windows machine
git version 1.8.1.msysgit.1
thanks,
Quark
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