Re: git-svn questions: how to clone/init non-standard layout branches/tags?

On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Lars Hjemli wrote:

On Nov 3, 2007 11:56 AM, Benoit SIGOURE [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Nov 3, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Luke Lu wrote:

quoted

2. Is there a way to add a new svn branch like that (say production
or some_branch) to an existing git-svn repository that has trunk
cloned?

I don't know, but that'd be great indeed.

You can simply add "fetch" lines to  the relevant "svn-remote" section
in .git/config.

I did try to add a "fetch" line for the production branch like this:

[svn-remote "svn"]
         url = svn+ssh://host/svn/project
         fetch = production:refs/remotes/svn-prod
         fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/git-svn

which is modeled after http://lists-archives.org/git/420712-git-svn- 
remote-tracking-branch-question.html

But when I try to checkout the production branch like this:

git checkout -b prod remotes/svn-prod

I got this:
git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/ 
forcing
Did you intend to checkout 'remotes/svn-prod' which can not be  
resolved as commit?

Can you shed some light on this? (git version is 1.5.3.4)

Thanks!

__Luke