git-svn(1): update instructions for resuming a git-svn clone
authorSam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:10:02 +0000 (12:10 +1300)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:31:52 +0000 (22:31 -0800)
git-svn expects its references under refs/remotes/*; but these will
not be copied or set by "git clone"; put in this man page the manual
fiddling that is required with current git-svn to get this to work.

Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-svn.txt
index e1a1d46a9fefd8d2d34f118b5e2eefce4fc7575a..b1d527f74cd72a7c749f1067a91a6d2c6b6235d3 100644 (file)
@@ -456,10 +456,13 @@ have each person clone that repository with 'git clone':
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Do the initial import on a server
        ssh server "cd /pub && git-svn clone http://svn.foo.org/project
-# Clone locally
-       git clone server:/pub/project
-# Tell git-svn which branch contains the Subversion commits
-       git update-ref refs/remotes/git-svn origin/master
+# Clone locally - make sure the refs/remotes/ space matches the server
+       mkdir project
+       cd project
+       git-init
+       git remote add origin server:/pub/project
+       git config --add remote.origin.fetch=+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*
+       git fetch
 # Initialize git-svn locally (be sure to use the same URL and -T/-b/-t options as were used on server)
        git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project
 # Pull the latest changes from Subversion