I found out how it can be done. The trick is not to use git svn clone. Instead, use git svn init and git svn fetch individually. Modified the example: URL=http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ REV=`svn info $URL |grep Revision: | awk ‘{print $2}’` PROJECT_FOLDER=google-web-toolkit-readonly mkdir $PROJECT_FOLDER cd !$ #goes into dir named $PROJECT_FOLDER git svn init -s $URL … Read more
One argument for using –no-metadata is that it doesn’t change your commit messages. So even if you fetch from different locations, the commit messages will be the same and thus the commit hashes will be the same. As an example, if I git svn init a repo from a local file: URL and later pull … Read more
Even though this is an old question, the current state of affairs with git-svn has changed since it was asked. Specifically, in git 1.7.5, there is some limited support for setting the svn:mergeinfo when dcommitting back to svn. git svn dcommit now accepts the -mergeinfo=<mergeinfo> flag. To quote from the 1.7.5+ man page: -mergeinfo=<mergeinfo> Add … Read more
I think this is the following issue: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=298 Possible solution is to setup svnserve and use the svn:// protocol instead of file:/// See here for setting up svnserve on Windows: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-serversetup-svnserve.html UPDATE svnserve is available as a part of TortoiseSVN if you use Windows OS (I checked with TortoiseSVN version 1.8.6) Then you just start: … Read more
My problem was that due to such a large SVN (files and log) that it kept crashing at some points and when I restarted it created multiple lines of the branches and tags within my .git/config file. branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/svn/branches/* tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/svn/tags/* I simply removed the duplicate entries of these and restarted with my … Read more
I’ve been experimenting a lot with this lately, and think I managed to come up with a setup that somewhat works. Yes, it’s a strict rebase-only regime, yes it’s complicated, but you do get to use Git for working locally (speed, history, stash, index, etc). You can use branches behind the scenes when you collaborate … Read more
I have the exact same issue on Windows 10 and sadly no real solution for you. But maybe it helps in the meantime to install the prior version 2.26.2. Link In my case it “solved” the problem until a proper solution is found. Update (2020-07-21): Currently a release candidate for version 2.28.0 exists where this … Read more
Note: git 2.3.0 (February 2015) supports proset with git svn. See commit 83c9433 by Alfred Perlstein (splbio): git-svn: support for git-svn propset This change allows git-svn to support setting subversion properties. It is useful for manually setting properties when committing to a subversion repo that requires properties to be set without requiring moving your changeset … Read more
I’m interested in this too. Supposing you have a repo that was created via git svn clone, I think you could break it down into three different questions: Does any git newline normalization/alteration happen at git svn fetch time, in moving commits from svn to the git repo? Does any git newline normalization/alteration happen at … Read more
When someone does a “cherry-pick merge” with Subversion, Subversion records the commit that was merged in the metadata for the files and folders involved. When you do a git svn fetch, Git sees that merge metadata, and tries to interpret it as a merge between the Git remote branches. All this message means is that … Read more