can you use git-svn to clone only a branch in SVN? posted by Travis Swicegood @ Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:43:15 +0000

Travis Swicegood — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:43:15 +0000

Hey Barrett;

Yes, you could definitely do that. If you want to clone only that branch, use that as your SVN repo URL and don’t add the -s parameter to specify the standard layout. That tells git-svn to treat that branch’s URL as if it’s your entire history.

On the other hand, if you want to have the entire repository and be able to commit to a particular branch inside SVN, you can do that by creating a new local branch and then running git svn dcommit within that. Consider this repository layout:

branches/development
trunk/

Assuming this has been cloned using git svn clone -s ... svn url ..., we now have development and trunk remote branches. To work in the development branch, you need only:

prompt> git checkout -b development remotes/development
... make some changes, commit them ...
prompt> git svn dcommit

That sends the changes back upstream to the SVN repository in the development branch. You can switch back over to master for changes you want to send to trunk.

Hope that helps. Let me know if there’s anything else I can help out with.
-T

can you use git-svn to clone only a branch in SVN? posted by Barrett Kern @ Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:59:18 +0000

Barrett Kern — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:59:18 +0000

I have a rather large repository and after finishing chapter ten I was unclear if I could only clone a branch in SVN. I would like to be able to push change back to this branch as well.

Thanks,
Barry

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can you use git-svn to clone only a branch in SVN? posted by Travis Swicegood @ Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:43:15 +0000

can you use git-svn to clone only a branch in SVN? posted by Barrett Kern @ Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:59:18 +0000