Re: Can I switch a git-svn clone from a file => http url?

["Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>]

On 2008.04.02 10:38:34 -0400, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> I've just created a git-svn clone from a svn repo accessed locally with a 
> file:/// path.
>
> Unfortunately the local svn repo is just a copy of the main svn repo  
> normally accessed with http or https (served through Apache). I was  
> having problems cloning the main svn repository (more details below) so I 
> archived the remote svn repository and copied it to my local hard drive.

I guess you should have used the --rewrite-root option when you did the
clone. Then the metadata in the log entries would already point to the
right URL and you could just adjust the URL in .git/config and drop the
rewriteRoot entry there.

> Is there an operation I can now do to switch the base url from:
>
>   file:///Path/to/svn/repository/projects
>
> to
>
>   https://svn.concord.org/svn/projects

Basically, this should work:

Change the URL to the repo in your .git/config.
Use filter-branch to change all git-svn-id lines in the log entries.
Delete the .rev_map.* files in .git/svn/*
Run git svn fetch (rebuilds the .rev_map.* files).

The filter-branch call should use the --msg-filter option to change the
log entries and should apply to all the svn branches/tags/trunk (or just
use " -- --all", if there's nothing that may not be filtered).

HTH
Björn