[Nut-upsdev] git and svn [was: [PATCH] nut: add autogen.sh]

[Charles Lepple]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Axel Gembe <ago at bastart.eu.org> wrote:
> Charles Lepple wrote:
>> this looks like the output of git. How is that working out? Would you
>> care to share some details on your setup?
>>
> Yes, indeed it is. I recently started using git-svn to clone svn
> repositories so I can work with them when my internet connection is lagging.
> Basically what I did was to first use "git-svn clone -s
> svn://svn.debian.org/nut/" which will get you a local copy with all the
> branches and tags.
> Then I do a "git checkout master && git-svn fetch && git-svn rebase" to
> update my local copy when I need something new.
> I'm having a local branch set up on which I make my changes and when I
> want to get my changes onto the latest trunk I do a "git rebase -i master".
> I create my patches using git-format-patch. I never had the time to test
> out stuff like dcommit yet, but I heard it works good.
> If you need anymore details, I'll provide them.

Thanks for explaining!

Just tried the 'git-svn clone' command, but it seems to be pulling
down the entire repository. Is there a way to tell git to just start
from the latest trunk and branches?

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- Charles Lepple