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Re: Can I switch a git-svn clone from a file => http url?

From: Björn Steinbrink <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:27

On 2008.04.02 10:38:34 -0400, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
I've just created a git-svn clone from a svn repo accessed locally with a 
file:/// path.

Unfortunately the local svn repo is just a copy of the main svn repo  
normally accessed with http or https (served through Apache). I was  
having problems cloning the main svn repository (more details below) so I 
archived the remote svn repository and copied it to my local hard drive.
I guess you should have used the --rewrite-root option when you did the
clone. Then the metadata in the log entries would already point to the
right URL and you could just adjust the URL in .git/config and drop the
rewriteRoot entry there.
Is there an operation I can now do to switch the base url from:

  file:///Path/to/svn/repository/projects

to

  https://svn.concord.org/svn/projects
Basically, this should work:

Change the URL to the repo in your .git/config.
Use filter-branch to change all git-svn-id lines in the log entries.
Delete the .rev_map.* files in .git/svn/*
Run git svn fetch (rebuilds the .rev_map.* files).

The filter-branch call should use the --msg-filter option to change the
log entries and should apply to all the svn branches/tags/trunk (or just
use " -- --all", if there's nothing that may not be filtered).

HTH
Björn
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