Month: November 2015

Keeping track of svn repositories using git

  • Clone an svn repository with entire history.
    • git svn clone --prefix=origin/ svn://svn.dd-wrt.com/DD-WRT

    Note: This can be very time-consuming on a large svn repository, esp. when the network connectivity is poor.

  • Clone an svn repository with recent history only.
    • git svn clone --prefix=origin/ -r 28015:HEAD svn://svn.dd-wrt.com/DD-WRT

  • When cloning fails on a large repository, keep fetching until it's done.
    • cd DD-WRT
while ! git svn fetch; do sleep 10; done

  • Fetch unfetched commits from the svn repository and rebase current work against it.
    • git svn rebase

  • Checkout an older svn revision.
    • git checkout `git svn find-rev r28015`

  • Return to the latest revision.
    • git checkout master

  • Remove untracked files in the current directory.
    • git clean -n
git clean -f