I'm using git as an interface to an SVN repository. Now I've created a SVN branch:
git svn branch my_branch
This created the directory in my SVN repository, and also created a branch called remotes/my_branch. Then I've deleted that remote tracking branch:
git branch -r -d my_branch
Now the directory is still there in the SVN repository, but I can't seem to find a way to get the remote tracking branch back. Any idea? I tried
git svn branch my_branch
=> branch test_new_mod_named already exists
and played around with git svn reset, etc. to no avail.
The easiest way I found to be making a commit in my_branch using svn, and then doing another git svn fetch.
$ git svn branch my_branch
Copying file:///Users/tfnico/svn-repo/website/trunk at
r14 to file:///Users/tfnico/svn-repo/website/branches/my_branch...
Remote branch is there:
$ git branch -a
master
* trunk
remotes/my_branch
Delete branch:
$ git branch -r -d my_branch
Deleted remote branch my_branch (was d422fbd).
And branch is gone. Now try a git svn fetch to recreate it:
$ git svn fetch
Nothing happens, until somebody does this...
$ svn checkout file:///Users/tfnico/svn-repo/website/branches/my_branch/
... and makes a commit. Voila:
$ git svn fetch
M hotfix.txt
r19 = f7449780fbb653cbcbc09861c0b446d41321e3f5 (refs/remotes/my_branch)
[17:29:33] tfnico:~/sources/git/website/[trunk]>git branch -a
master
* trunk
remotes/my_branch
Remote branch is back.
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How can i repair my git-svn mirror repository?
It is set up with git svn init ..., then github remote was added. The cron job is doing git svn rebase && git push periodically.
Everything was fine until upstream somehow "uncommited" several revisions from svn, which already was fetched into my git-svn and pushed to github. Then upstream added some new revisions to svn trunk, reusing revision numbers of "uncommited" revisions, which broke my syncronization process.
When i realized what hppened, i did git svn reset to last valid revision and commited reverse patch into git.
But since then, i can not pull upstream changes with git svn rebase, i have to do git svn fetch && git merge trunk instead, resulting in awful history.
Can i somehow tell git-svn that i will not git svn dcommit anything, that it can forget about that reverse patch commit, so git svn rebase can work like it worked before all this happened?
My investigation results: there is nothing magical in git-svn's rebase function. It is just a git svn fetch followed by git rebase refs/remotes/trunk and refs update.
In my case, all i had was to move my local tracking branch ref to the last fetched from commit.
git svn fetch
git log -1 refs/remotes/trunk
gave me latest sha1: ed0fa874ca872bc3a0101ee397f611a537e72c2a
git update-ref HEAD ed0fa87
git reset --hard
Useful resources: Pro GIT Book, Visualizing branch topology in git.
Hope, this will help someone.
I am working on local git repository and I need to push my local git into existing svn repository. My git repository is pure local git repository, it was not init using git svn clone.
How can I import this local git repo into svn?
Preferably I'ld like to keep the git history being imported into SVN.
Currently the SVN repository is structure as:
https://svnrepohost
/branches
/tags
/trunk
/projectA
/projectB
/newProject
What I need it is to import my git repository into the https://svnrepohost/trunk/newProject above, assuming the newProject folder is empty.
I have finally solved this problem by the following steps:
Setup appropriate project folder in svn to be imported to, for example http://svnrepo/svn/trunk/newProject
Create a new git-svn repository
git svn clone http://svnrepo/svn/trunk/newProject
Add the git repo that we want to import as remote to the new git-svn repo
git remote add origin ../original-git-repo
Pull all the data from original-git-repo
git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories
Rebase local repository against svn
git svn rebase
Commit the changes into svn
git svn dcommit
Clean up the remote
git remote delete origin
The easiest way to do this is to just svn import the Git directory. That will lose you your Git commit history, however.
First of all, make sure the .git directory won't be imported by setting the global-ignores in the Subversion config file. Open your ~/.subversion/config file (that'll be in something like C:\Users\username\.subversion\config on Windows), find the section starting [miscellany], and add a line directly underneath reading as below:
global-ignores = .git
(if you already have a line with global-ignores = that doesn't have a # in front of it, then just add .git to the end of that line.)
Next, run the below:
svn import <path-to-local-git-repository> https://svnrepohost/trunk/newProject
That should copy the contents of the local Git repository onto the server exactly where you want it.
You may use SubGit.
$ svnadmin create repo.svn
$ subgit configure repo.svn
...
CONFIGURATION SUCCESSFUL
Adjust '/tmp/repo.svn/conf/subgit.conf' file
and then run
subgit install "repo.svn"
to complete SubGit installation.
$ nano repo.svn/conf/subgit.conf #edit to set git.default.repository=path/to/your/bare/git/repository
$ subgit install repo.svn
I would also recommend you to create a bare clone of your Git repository and to specify path to it (in git.default.repository) instead of your original repository. I.e.
$ git clone --bare path/to/your/original/repository path/to/your/bare/git/repository
After "subgit install" command the repositories (repo.svn and repo.git) will be in continuos synchronization (triggered by pre-receive hook in Git [that starts on pushing to your bare repository] and pre-commit in SVN). To stop synchronization you may run
$ subgit uninstall repo.svn
git svn clone http://svnrepo/svn/trunk/newProject
git remote add origin ../original-git-repo
git fetch origin
git checkout -b lmaster remotes/origin/master
git rebase master
git svn rebase
git svn dcommit
With git-svn If I have cloned svn repository with all trunk, branches and tags, how do I create a new svn branch out of a svn branch?
I know I can create a new branch from trunk (master) with git svn branch, but how do I handle this from a branch?
SHould I first create a local tracking branch from the branch, and out of it invoke git svn branch?
I did it using a local tracking branch, and create branch from it:
git checkout master
git branch --track localToBeCloned BranchToBeCloned
git checkout localToBeCloned
git svn branch NewClone -m "new branch created"
git branch --track localNewClone NewClone
git checkout localNewClone
Is there a way to ignore git-svn updates? my usual workflow:
doing stuff in my dev git branch
checking out my master
git svn rebase on master
cherry-pick from dev
git svn dcommit
checkout dev again
git merge master
the only problem with this is that after i git merge master, i do git log -n ###, and i get all the git-svn updates as well. Can i limit it just the latest git commits?
No, you can't merge master back into the dev-branch without getting the git-svn commits along for the ride.
The thing is that when you do a git svn dcommit, you actually rewrite the commits that you've cherry-picked from the dev branch. The git-svn commits are now part of your history, and it would be folly to try to get rid of them some how. If I'm guessing correctly, your dev branch is full of merge commits where your git-svn commits are re-joined with your dev-commits because they have diverged. This is messy.
That being said, I'm also unsure if your workflow is optimal. Maybe you should try this:
work work work in the dev branch
git svn rebase on master for the lastest svn changes
Now rebase these latest changes in under your work: git rebase master in dev
Now fast-forward your changes back to master: git merge dev on master
git svn dcommit on master
Now remove the dev branch. Little sense in keeping it since the commits have now been rewritten by dcommit. git branch -d dev
git checkout -b dev for the next feature/fix.
I'm looking for a command in git-svn that will show me the changes I have committed to my git repository but that aren't yet committed to the central svn repository. I'm looking for something that works like svn status, but I'm using git-svn, and unfortunately, git svn status is not a valid command.
I tried git status but it does not solve this problem, as it shows changes that haven't been committed to my local git repo.
I also tried git svn dcommit --dry-run, but it doesn't tell me which files are ready to be dcommitted - it only shows the repository URL.
Assuming the branch for the remote Subversion repository is at remotes/git-svn, run the following:
git svn fetch
The fetch will ensure that remotes/git-svn is up-to-date. (Thanks to Mark for pointing this out in a comment.)
git diff --name-status remotes/git-svn
This should show you the name and status of all the files that have been committed to git but not to Subversion, just like the svn status command.
In case you're not sure where the branch containing the Subversion remote repository is located, you can run:
git branch -a
which should produce output similar to the following:
* master
remotes/git-svn
You can probably guess from this that the remote Subversion repository is in remotes/git-svn.
You can also use
git diff git-svn HEAD -d
or if you have difftool specified:
git difftool git-svn HEAD -d