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

[Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org>]

At 9:05 AM +0300 4/3/08, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>Stephen Bannasch kirjoitti:
>
>> 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.
>
>2. Convert your repo again:
>
>$ mkdir repo ; cd repo
>$ git svn init --rewrite-root=http://... file:///...
>$ git svn fetch
>
>This way you'll create new Git repo from file:///... url but commit
>messages will have git-svn-id's url pointing at http://... . After that
>set the correct remote url to .git/config:
>
>[svn-remote "svn"]
>	url = http://...

Thanks Teemu,

That took a while but worked.

I also removed the rewriteRoot line from config after editing the url.

I think I might have achieved the same effect more quickly with Björn's suggestion to use:

  git-filter-branch --msg-filter

to:

> >Use filter-branch to change all git-svn-id lines in the log entries.

But it wasn't clear to me how to change the git-svn-id lines.