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| author | Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> | 2007-08-06 01:16:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-08-06 01:46:31 -0700 |
| commit | 7d4aef4027e6a95fa112fa7b069f945cad294a23 (patch) | |
| tree | 5148b7eb1fd40556a87dd13e18b1a4664299d172 | |
| parent | a6954452ecf757523b31d6eaaf7e00c7a2d91e46 (diff) | |
| download | git-7d4aef4027e6a95fa112fa7b069f945cad294a23.tar.gz | |
Documentation/git-svn: how to clone a git-svn-created repository
These instructions tell you how to create a clone of a repository
created with git-svn, that can in turn be used with git-svn.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 20 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 0a210e4bea..816340b944 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -435,6 +435,26 @@ Tracking and contributing to an entire Subversion-managed project # of dcommit/rebase/show-ignore should be the same as above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +The initial 'git-svn clone' can be quite time-consuming +(especially for large Subversion repositories). If multiple +people (or one person with multiple machines) want to use +git-svn to interact with the same Subversion repository, you can +do the initial 'git-svn clone' to a repository on a server and +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 +# 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 + git-svn rebase +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + REBASE VS. PULL/MERGE --------------------- |