Subject: Re: How to prefix existing svn remotes?

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:02:31 +0100

Sébastien Mazy venit, vidit, dixit 23.01.2009 13:42:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:13:18PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> The following works for me:
>>
>> 0) fetch to make sure you're current (optional)
>> 1) edit .git/config and add the prefix (right hand side of the
>> refpsecs), or really rename in any way you want
> 
> OK.
> 
>> 2) rename the existing remote branches in the same way
> 
> I'm not sure how I can do it. 'trunk' is the only remote-tracking svn
> branches under .git/refs/. Here is how it looks:
> 
> ls -R .git/refs
>  .git/refs:  heads  remotes  tags
>  .git/refs/heads:  master
>  .git/refs/remotes:  trunk
> 
> Still, a 'branch0' remote exist:
> 
> git show-ref
>  refs/heads/master
>  refs/remotes/branch0
>  refs/remotes/trunk

You can do (bash)

for b in trunk branch0
do
  git update-ref refs/remotes/yournewprefix/$b refs/remotes/$b
  git update-ref -d refs/remotes/$b
done

OTOH, any incarnation of "git -m" (with or without "-r", specifying
refs/remotes/trunk, remotes/trunk or trunk) failed.

Michael