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From: Boyd Lynn Gerber
Subject: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 11:36 am

Hello,

I have a local svn of about 100 svn projects.  I have sripts that update 
via svn all these repo's daily.  What I want to do is to import these 
local svn tree's into git.  I can not seem to get it to work.

This is the latest attempt.

git-svnimport -C /working/git/project /master/svn/pub-svn/category/project

The above seems to work with the remote url's, but I really need to be 
able to update my working copies of svn and cvs into git.

I have as follows...

/master/cvs/category/project/
/master/svn/category/project/
/master/git/categroy/project/

/working/cvs/category/project/
/working/svn/category/project/
/working/git/category/project/

All my master stuff is being updated automatically.  My working is being 
updated as well via the various management systems.  What I am having 
problems doing is the automation of cvs and svn into my working git.

Git pulls from master git to the working git project without a problem.  
I want all the projects under git.  What I have now or want is in

/working/git/category/project

Examples of categories are

X11
audio
db
devtools
ebus
emulators
fileutils
gnome
interp
java
libraries
mail
net
qt
shells
shellutils
sysadmin
textproc

so for example

I want to have

/working/git/interp/perl
/working/git/interp/php
/working/git/interp/python

And have it updated via cron from my master repo's.  Could anyone shed 
some light on the best way to do this?

Thanks,

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047
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From: Miklos Vajna
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 11:55 am

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:36:43PM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.c=

=46rom RelNotes-1.5.4.txt:

 * "git svnimport" was removed in favor of "git svn".  It is still there
   in the source tree (contrib/examples) but unsupported.

Try using git-svn.

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From: Boyd Lynn Gerber
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:20 pm

Thanks, I was not sure which I should use,  I had tried both with similar 
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Bad URL passed to RA layer: Unrecognized URL scheme for 
'/working/svn/networking/wireshark' at /usr/bin/git-svn line 934

It appears I am unable to use local repo's unless I have the setup to use 
via http.  I really would rather just take from my local working svn to 
git.

Thanks,

--
Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047
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From: Miklos Vajna
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:23 pm

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:20:40PM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.c=

I would try "git-svn clone file:///working/svn/networking/wireshark".

See also the svn-remote.<name>.rewriteRoot setting in the git-svn
manpage.

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From: Daniel Barkalow
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:24 pm

Maybe file:///working/svn/networking/wireshark?

	-Daniel
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From: Boyd Lynn Gerber
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:57 pm

This is really frustrating.

I have tried every combination of file://localhost/ file:///

This is what I get

git-svn clone file:///working/svn/network/wireshark/ -T trunk -b branches 
-t tags wireshark
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Couldn't open a repository: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL: 
Unable to open repository 'file:///working/svn/network/wireshark' at 
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  8 gerberb zenez  208 2008-06-10 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 gerberb zenez  240 2008-06-12 13:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x  6 gerberb zenez  240 2008-06-12 12:14 .svn
drwxr-xr-x  6 gerberb zenez  152 2008-06-10 12:43 historic
drwxr-xr-x  5 gerberb zenez  152 2008-06-10 12:46 prereleases
drwxr-xr-x 86 gerberb zenez 2728 2008-06-10 12:37 releases
drwxr-xr-x 26 gerberb zenez 7016 2008-06-10 12:39 trunk
drwxr-xr-x 25 gerberb zenez 7136 2008-06-10 11:45 trunk-1.0


Add the options -T trunk -b branches -t tags above same results.

git-svn really does not like to import from a local svn file...

Any other ideas,

Thanks, I really apperciate the assistance.

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047
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From: Miklos Vajna
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 1:41 pm

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:57:28PM -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.c=

Did you do just a simple checkout or do you have the full repository at
/working/svn/network/wireshark?

You need the later if you want to do the conversion offline.

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From: Boyd Lynn Gerber
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 1:46 pm

I have the full svn for each of the svn projects.  Eventually I want the 
communications to go both ways.
 

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047
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From: Daniel Barkalow
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 1:56 pm

That looks like a SVN working copy, not an SVN repository. Maybe you want 
file:///master/svn/...?

	-Daniel
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From: Boyd Lynn Gerber
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 2:03 pm

I tried /master/svn/network/... as well.  Same results.  I can cd 
/master/svn/network/... svn update and I get any updates from the URL.  

I really do not want to run web-dav.  I am able to do it if I run web-dav 
and have my server as a svn master.  I have had security issues with 
web-dav and I really want to avoid running it at all costs.

Thanks,

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047
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From: Daniel Barkalow
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 3:11 pm

That means it's a SVN working copy; SVN working copies don't contain the 
project history, so it's impossible to import from them. 

Basically, if you can't use your master copy for "svn co <URL>", you can't 

The SVN FAQ has information on running a SVN master without any web 
service. You should probably read that.

Alternatively, you could give up on having any local SVN-based storage, 
and have /master/svn/... be a git repository that you update from the 
upstream SVN server with "git svn".

	-Daniel
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From: Boyd Lynn Gerber
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 3:20 pm

That is what I have been going over and play with for the last about 2 

The problem is I have over 100 projects in my /master/svn/... we use them 
to do checkouts.  I am able to check out from my /master/svn/ with svn, I 
just can not seem to get the same to work with git.  But it probably is 
just me being dumb or missing something.  I am going to finish going over 
the various FAQ's again.  I am sure I am missing something.  I am sure 
there has to be a way without having web-dav running.

Thanks,

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ	1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047
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From: Asheesh Laroia
Subject: Re: git-svn-import or CVS import from local HD rather than remote.
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 9:00 pm

Can you type the working "svn checkout" command into an email, and paste 
that conversation into the email also?

Can you then try doing "git svn init $THAT_URL_YOU_PASSED_TO_SVN_CHECKOUT 
; git svn fetch" and paste the conversation into an email to the git list?

-- Asheesh.

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