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.
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
Here's more details about the problem that got me to this spot:
The svn repo is about 1GB.
I tried several times on a 1000baseT network to git-svn clone the

repo. There are about 13000 revisions but the clone process would

randomly stop without an error somewhere between revision 400 and

1200.
This was the command I was using:
git svn clone https://svn.concord.org/svn/projects
I'm running git version 1.5.4.4 (installed via ports) on MacOS 10.5.2.

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I know two options:
1. Keep your current Git repo but set the url and rewriteroot options

in .git/config:
[svn-remote "svn"]

	url = http://...

	rewriteroot = file:///...
Your commit messages will still have git-svn-id pointing at file:///...

url but it should work fine.
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://...

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

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Thanks Björn,
I've just started using git so please forgive the beginner questions.
What should I change the log entries to?
Here's what the log entries look like now:
$ git-filter-branch --msg-filter 'echo $GIT_COMMIT'

^MRewrite 89817efa5b290d375786a5af9a0dcc338df8a68c (1/13099)^MRewrite b090d1d40cba2c66a494d52e370317487d103484 (2/13099)^M
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[missed the message because you dropped me from Cc:...]
Ouch, that replaced your commit messages with the sha1 hashes... Should

have been something like:

git filter-branch --msg-filter 'sed "s,file:///....,http:///,"' -- --all
Björn

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Hi,
Have you tried to edit the .git/config?  The key to look for is

svn-remote.svn.url.
Hth,

Dscho

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