Re: How to use git-svn to clone from a mirror?

Hi,

David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:

Hi, I seem to be too stupid to get this right.

I have used something like

git-svn clone -T trunk -b branches -t tags file:///tmp/rsync-mirror

to clone an rsync mirror of an SVN repository.  Now I want to have
fetch revert to pulling from the upstream repository in future.
However, if I change the respective line in .git/config to
svn://the.svn.link/whatever, git-rebase will fetch the right updates,
but then says that it can't work with the objects in the git
repository.

Changing the config back will make git-rebase -l work.

So what would be the right procedure to shift the SVN source from an
rsync mirror to the original, without git-svn breaking?

I think you'll have to

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  # remove stored revision db, since we're going to change all the commit ids
  rm .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db.*

  # rewrite git-svn-id: lines
  cg-admin-rewritehist \
	--msg-filter \
	'sed "s,file:///tmp/rsync-mirror,svn://the.svn.link/whatever,"'

  # recreate new revision db, and fetch updates, if any
  git-svn rebase
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- Hari