Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of git-svn-tutorial

Timestamp:

11/23/09 15:56:49 (12 years ago)

Author:

urkle

Comment:

Added "shortcut" hack to getting git-svn metadata from github clone. and cleaned up top part of document

git-svn-tutorial

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+= Getting the GIT checkout =
+== Import Straight from the SVN repo ==
 First, we need to fetch a copy of the repository.
 
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 Which is very similar to {{{svn up}}}.
 
+== From the leto's github mirror ==
+
 Because importing all of history is *very* time consuming, DukeLeto has already gone through the trouble and maintains a github mirror of Parrot at http://github.com/leto/parrot/tree/upstream . 
 {{{
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 }}}
+
+=== Adding git-svn metadata to the github clone ===
+If you want to re-populate the SVN metadata that can quickly be done by taking your up-to-date clone of leto's repo off of gihub and adding this to your .git/config
+
+{{{
+    [svn-remote "svn"]
+            url = https://svn.parrot.org/parrot
+            fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
+}}}
+
+Then run this command to find the "top commit"
+
+{{{
+     git show origin/upstream | head -n 1
+}}}
+
+and put that commit hash into a file .git/refs/remotes/trunk (obviously replace the has with the one from the above command)
+
+{{{
+     echo c85aaa38b99cedb087e5f6fb69ce6d4a6ac57a0b > .git/refs/remotes/trunk
+}}}
+
+and finally
+
+{{{
+     git svn fetch
+}}}
+
+== From full git-svn tarball ==
 
 You can also download a tar archive containing the complete history and all branches as well as svn meta data from 
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  * http://moritz.faui2k3.org/files/parrot-all-git-svn.tar.gz (recommended; prepared by Tene, polished by moritz).
 
+= Basic local workflow =
 Now, start working on patches.  The simplest way to work, without local branches, is: