From 7d4aef4027e6a95fa112fa7b069f945cad294a23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Roben Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:16:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-svn.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 0a210e4be..816340b94 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 --------------------- -- 2.26.2