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

In case others encounter this problem and want to find a solution...

On Nov 3, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Luke Lu wrote:

On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Lars Hjemli wrote:

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On Nov 3, 2007 9:41 PM, Luke Lu [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Nov 3, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Lars Hjemli wrote:

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On Nov 3, 2007 9:01 PM, Luke Lu [off-list ref] wrote:

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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

Did you forget to run 'git svn fetch' after modifying your .git/
config?

Yes, I did. It didn't seem to do anything.

Hmm, it works for me, I've been adding and removing branches like  
this
for months, but my .git/config is slightly different:

[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = svn://example.org
        fetch = project/trunk:refs/remotes/svn/trunk
        fetch = project/branches/topic:refs/remotes/svn/topic

I don't know if this difference is important, though...

I tried to test this on a local repository like file:///path/ 
project. It seems to work and get everything properly upon git svn  
fetch. However it doesn't work for the production branch. If I  
modify the fetch line a bit to svn/prod instead of svn-prod and try  
git svn fetch again. It would hang for about 2 minutes and return 0  
and show nothing in progress. A .git/svn/svn/prod directory is  
created but it's empty.

One thing that might be special for this branch is that it gets  
deleted and recreated/copied all the time from trunk. I wonder if  
git-svn use some kind of heuristics to determine if there is  
anything to fetch and silently failing...

After some permutations, this is the config that worked for me:

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

The primary difference is that I moved 'project' from url to the  
fetch specs. My original single trunk config looked like this:

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

I wish that "git svn fetch" could be more verbose about what's going  
on in this case.

__Luke