Re: git-svn fetch

Doki Pen venit, vidit, dixit 29.05.2009 17:09:

I'm sorry if this has been brought up before, I did look through the 
archive and didn't see it.  

I am working with a repo that has about 7000 commits and about 100 
branches/tags.  I've been using git-svn for about 4 months now and love 
it.  The problem I'm experiencing is that everytime a new branch is added, 
git svn fetch seems to download the entire history all the way from r1.  
Is this the expected behavior?  If so, why is that?  Don't we already have 
the old revisions from trunk and other branches?  

AFAIK git-svn has to go back in order to search for possible earlier
history of $newbranch. For git-svn, the following two scenarios are
basically equivalent:

- a new branch is added to the svn repo
- you change your git-svn config so that a new branch becomes
"interesting" (which had been skipped before)

git-svn treats them the same way ("a branch we don't know about yet"),
because it can't really (reliably) distinguish between them.

Michael