Re: svn repository URL and git

On Thu, 28.10.2010 at 21:31:18 +0200, Mathias Lafeldt wrote:

On 10/28/2010 09:02 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:

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On Thu, 28.10.2010 at 16:58:28 +0000, H Krishnan wrote:

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Hi,
I think I resolved this problem by using --rewrite-root as suggested. I used a 
dummy root during the git-svn clone:

git-svn clone --rewrite-root http://git.is.great <myrepo>

All my commit messages now have http://git.is.great but I am able to change the 
repository URL and continue.

Could this approach be used as an insurance against svn url changes? When 
initializing the repository, we could use --rewrite-root. Subsequently, if the 
svn repository relocates, we need to edit only .git/config. 

Yes, that's exactly what the rewrite-url was introduced for, you can
even clone from a local svnsync mirror (iff the UUID matches, you have
to setup the mirror in a special way ...).

So, every developer must use:

$ git svn clone --rewrite-root CANONICAL-URL-NEVER-TO-CHANGE <whatever-url-is-convenient>

Oh, and all devs must use the same authormap (or no authormap at all).

hth,
Uli

FYI, I just learned [1] that git-svn even has a --rewrite-uuid option.

[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html

Try using them both at the same time! :]

(No, I have no idea, why that is not supported ... OTOH having the same
UUID on the mirror is a kinda no-brainer)

Uli