Subject: Re: Split a subversion repo into several git repos

From: "Eivind LM" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:47:12 +0200

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:23:44 +0200, Jonathan del Strother  
<[email-masked]> wrote:
[...]
>>
>>  $ git-svn init -b eivindlm/branches \
>>                 -t eivindlm/tags \
>>                 -T eivindlm/trunk/src/probesimulator \
>>                 file:///svn-repo/
>> , which prints the happy message:
>>  Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
>>
>> The next command is unfortunately not as happy:
>>  $ git fetch
>>  fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>>  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>  Cannot get the repository state from origin
>
>
> I believe you actually wanted "git-svn fetch" here

You are right, that solved the problem :)

So both methods work now, apparently giving the same result. Is there a  
difference between the fetch- versus the clone-approach? I am doing this  
as a once-and-for-all import, and would like to forget everything about  
the subversion repository afterwards.

Thanks,
Eivind