Git svn clone: How to defer fetch of revision history
clone, git, git-clone, git-svn
Solution
I found out how it can be done. The trick is not to use `git svn clone`. Instead, use `git svn init` and `git svn fetch` individually. Modified the example:
URL=http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
REV=`svn info $URL |grep Revision: | awk '{print $2}'`
PROJECT_FOLDER=google-web-toolkit-readonly
mkdir $PROJECT_FOLDER
cd !$ #goes into dir named $PROJECT_FOLDER
git svn init -s $URL #-s implies --stdlayout with /trunk /tags /branches
git svn fetch -r $REV
# hack, hack, hack
# or update history (fetch 50 revisions back each loop
for (( r=$REV; r>0; r-=50 ));
do
git svn fetch -r $r:HEAD
done
Problem
I often have the case that I want to work on a SVN repository right away. But an ordinary `git svn clone [url]` also clones the entire history. So I want to speed things up. The first part is to fetch only the last revision into your Git repository. I do it like so: ``` URL=http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ REV=`svn info $URL |grep Revision: | awk '{print $2}'` PROJECT_FOLDER=google-web-toolkit-readonly git svn clone -r$REV:HEAD $URL $PROJECT_FOLDER ``` (more info in the StackOverflow article: "How to git-svn clone last n revisions from svn" This way I'm up and running and can work immediately. But without local copy of the history. The question is, how do I afterwards fetch history from the svn repository? And preferably, can this be done in chunks of, say 1000 revisions (in reverse order). Any help here would be greatly appreciated :)