Setting up git-svn to follow a non-standard svn repo

Question

Here's the structure of my SVN repo:

http://server.net:8080/svn/CompanyName — svn root
http://server.net:8080/svn/CompanyName/ProjectBranch3 — current branch of the project
http://server.net:8080/svn/CompanyName/ProjectBranch2 — previous branch of the project
http://server.net:8080/svn/CompanyName/ProjectBranch1 — first branch of the project
http://server.net:8080/svn/CompanyName/SomeRandomProject — another project in the same root that I don't want to check out. There are lot of them
http://server.net:8080/svn/CompanyName/Tags/ProjectName/ — tags for the project

Project was developed as ProjectBranch1 at first, then copied into ProjectBranch2, and ProjectBranch3 in the end. I want to fetch the project with all of it's history, and I want git to understand that each branch started where previous one finished.

Now, the git init command has a -b option to specify a subfolder that is used for branches. However, the svn branches are not contained to a subfolder; as described above, they are located right in the root as individual sub-directories.

How can I configure git-svn to achieve this?

Please don't mark this question as duplicate of this: stackoverflow.com/questions/572893/… this question is about a situation where all svn branches were contained in a single branch directory, every subdirectory of which is a branch. This is not the case here. — Max Yankov
– Max Yankov, Commented May 11, 2015 at 8:27

Max Yankov · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-11 11:22:09Z

1

I was able to do it with the following .git/config file:

[svn-remote "svn"]
    url = http://server.net:8080/svn/CompanyName
    fetch = ProjectBranch3:refs/remotes/origin/trunk
    branches = {ProjectBranch1, ProjectBranch2}:refs/remotes/origin/bracnhes/*

answered May 11, 2015 at 11:22

Max Yankov

13.5k17 gold badges76 silver badges147 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Setting up git-svn to follow a non-standard svn repo

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Linked

Related