Re: Handling tags/branches after git-svn fetch during SVN to Git conversion

[Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com>]

I posted this question to StackOverflow and got back that I should use
the svn2git tool. Surely there has to be a native way to convert these
branches into local branches using git-svn.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3206383/what-is-the-correct-way-to-convert-svn-remote-branches-and-tags-into-local-git-br

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Bradley Wagner
<bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote:
>
> I had a fairly complicated config for my SVN to Git migration with
> multiple branch and tag locations. Therefore, I had to break up the
> "git svn clone" because I didn't know how to pass multiple branch
> locations to "git svn clone":
>
> 1. git svn init
> 2. Update .git/config with branch/tag locations
> [svn-remote "svn"]
>        url = file:///Users/Developers/git_transition/svn_repo
>        fetch = project/trunk:refs/remotes/svn/trunk
>        branches =
> project/branches/{feature1-branch,feature2-branch}:refs/remotes/svn/*
>        branches =
> project/branches/{6.x,5.x,4.x,3.x,archive}/*:refs/remotes/svn/*
>        tags = project/tags/{3.7.x,4.x,5.x,6.x,old-releases}/*:refs/remotes/svn/tags/*
> 3. git svn -A/path/to/mappings fetch
>
> Do I need to convert these remote tags/branches into local Git
> tags/branches before pushing them to my remote Git repo or is there a
> way to push remote branches directly to my remote Git repo?
>
> The command that someone else told me was "git checkout -b
> <local_branch_name> <remote_branch_name>". Though, I've seen other
> places mention different strategies for converting the branches.
>
> The script I devised to convert the tags does this for each tags
> folder to maintain the original commit date, author, and commit
> message:
>
> git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/remotes/svn/tags/6.x |
> grep -v @ | while read tag; do GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(git log -1
> --pretty=format:"%ad" "$tag")" GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$(git log -1
> --pretty=format:"%ce" "$tag")" GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$(git log -1
> --pretty=format:"%cn" "$tag")" git tag -m "$(git log -1
> --pretty=format:"%s%n%b" "$tag")" ${tag#refs/remotes/svn/tags/6.x/}
> "$tag"; done
>
> Please let me know if this is correct.
>
> Thanks!



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