git-svn(1): update instructions for resuming a git-svn clone
git-svn expects its references under refs/remotes/*; but these will not be copied or set by "git clone"; put in this man page the manual fiddling that is required with current git-svn to get this to work. Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sam Vilain committed
Jan 25, 2008 at 12:10 UTC
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@@ -456,10 +456,13 @@ have each person clone that repository with 'git clone':
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# Do the initial import on a server
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ssh server "cd /pub && git-svn clone http://svn.foo.org/project
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-# Clone locally
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- git clone server:/pub/project
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-# Tell git-svn which branch contains the Subversion commits
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- git update-ref refs/remotes/git-svn origin/master
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+# Clone locally - make sure the refs/remotes/ space matches the server
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+ mkdir project
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+ cd project
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+ git-init
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+ git remote add origin server:/pub/project
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+ git config --add remote.origin.fetch=+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*
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+ git fetch
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# Initialize git-svn locally (be sure to use the same URL and -T/-b/-t options as were used on server)
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git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project
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# Pull the latest changes from Subversion