backup from google cache, still useful for svn repos with funny structure that git svn can't understand automatically
First, clone the SVN repo with:
git-svn clone svn+ssh://your-server/home/svn/project-name/trunk -r NNNN project-name.git
where NNNN is some relatively recent revision, unless you like waiting forever for git-svn to sync. Make sure that the revision number you pick is actually on trunk -- don't just choose an arbitrary number in the past. Don't bother trying to pull branches with the -b argument at this point -- if that worked, we wouldn't be doing this.
Then, cd into project-name.git and:
git-svn rebase
to pull in everything from your NNNN revision to date. Now you've got a working git repo that you can mangle at will, and recommit to svn with
git-svn dcommit
(There are some problems, namely that git-svn seems to get confused about ancestry if your local git branching gets complex, but we'll ignore that for now.)
Now, we want to add a second remote branch to our local git. To do this, edit
your .git/config file. You've probably got something like this in there:
[svn-remote "svn"]
url = svn+ssh://your-server/home/svn/project-name/trunk
fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn
To track a second branch (for this example, it's "branches/3.4.x"), you want to add:
[svn-remote "svn34"]
url = svn+ssh://your-server/home/svn/project-name/branches/3.4.x
fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn-3.4
You're just adding a new svn-remote stanza with a new svn-remote name, url, and fetch target.
Next, we want to pull that branch:
git-svn fetch svn34 -r MMMM
Again, pick for the MMMM revision a value that's a) somewhat recent, or you'll wait forever, and b) actually on the branch you want to retrieve.
Now, git branch -a should show a new remote branch named git-svn-3.4. You
don't want to mess with this remote branch, so we'll want a local master to edit
and/or branch from:
git checkout git-svn-3.4
git checkout -b master-3.4.x
Now we've got a new master-3.4.x that can be used for git-svn rebase and dcommit just as your old master could. From here, cherry-pick the patches you want to backport to your branch, and then dcommit them back to svn.
Origin, last edited Fri 08 Jun 2007 11:35:13 AM EDT