git clone of git-svn tree?

Question

I\'ve got a \'git-svn\' working tree. I\'d like to clone a \"pure\" git repo off this, and then use git push/pull to move changes between the git-svn tree and the git tree,

Answer 1

Based on what I've seen, this workflow isn't supported with git-svn, and won't be, due to the way SVN represents merges.

Answer 2

Using git and git-svn 1.7.1, it seems that the test I just did seems to work just fine.

git svn init [url]
git svn fetch

you must then create and checkout a dummy branch to be able to push to the master branch.

git checkout -b dummy

Then you can clone it (git clone ...) into another pure git repo, modify it, commit it (git commit) then push (git push) into the git-svn repo.

back to the git svn repo:

git checkout master
git svn dcommit

will commit all git commits that have been pushed.

Answer 3

One thing that may be causing you trouble is that git svn dcommit will rewrite all the commits it sends to SVN- at least if it's configured to add the SVN metadata note to the bottom of the commit messages. So you will have to adopt a flow where any repositories taking commits from your git-svn workspace rebase against it, losing all the merge history which can't be stored in SVN anyway.

Answer 4

I have a bridge setup for some of my projects, but it's only one-way from git to svn (providing a public readonly SVN mirror of our git master branch). However, since it works fine it might help you or point you in the right direction in your two-way scenario anyway, as I assume it's git->svn that makes problems, not svn->git:

My one-way scenario: Existing git repository at github, need a readonly svn mirror of the git master branch

• Create and initialize the target subversion repository on the Server:

  svnadmin create svnrepo
  mkdir trunk
  svn import trunk svn://yoursvnserver/svnrepo
  rmdir -rf trunk
  

• Create a mixed Git-Svn checkout and initialize subversion repository

  git svn clone svn://yoursvnserver/svnrepo/trunk
  cd trunk
  git remote add github git://github.com/yourname/repo.git
  git fetch github
  git branch tmp $(cat .git/refs/remotes/github/master)
  git tag -a -m "Last fetch" last tmp
  INIT_COMMIT=$(git log tmp --pretty=format:%H | tail -1)
  git checkout $INIT_COMMIT .
  git commit -C $INIT_COMMIT
  git rebase master tmp
  git branch -M tmp master
  git svn dcommit --rmdir --find-copies-harder
  

• Update the mirror

  git fetch github
  git branch tmp $(cat .git/refs/remotes/github/master)
  git tag -a -m "Last fetch" newlast tmp
  git rebase --onto master last tmp
  git branch -M tmp master
  git svn dcommit --rmdir --find-copies-harder
  mv .git/refs/tags/newlast .git/refs/tags/last
  

This two articles from googlecode might help as well:

• Importing from Git
• Exporting to Git
• Using Git with Google Code Hosting
• Develop with Git on a Google Code Project

Answer 5

If you're able to install custom hooks into Subversion repository, consider using SubGit.

SubGit is a server-side solution that automatically synchronizes SVN and Git repositories. In order to install SubGit do the following:

    $ subgit configure $SVN_REPOS
    $ # Adjust $SVN_REPOS/conf/subgit.conf 
    $ #     to specify your branches and tags
    $ # Adjust $SVN_REPOS/conf/authors.txt 
    $ #     to introduce svn author names to their git counterparts
    $ subgit install $SVN_REPOS
    $ ...
    $ INSTALLATION SUCCESSFUL

At this moment SubGit has installed hooks that are triggered by every svn commit and git push. This way SubGit converts any incoming modification.

See also comparison with git-svn.

Answer 6

As I've often said on #git:

git-svn is like a flying car. Everybody wants a flying car, until they realize a flying car is pretty bad as either a car or a plane.

The real solution is to get away from SVN entirely, as quickly as possible. Use git-svn for a one-time migrate, then move everyone over. Git is not that hard to learn.