Git only branches with svn mirror

[Angelo Diego Crabolu]

I set up subgit to mirror an svn repo, I would like now to be able to create git only branches and share them among git users without pushing them on the svn server, when done I will rebase the branches on trunk and push them to svn.

Is this possible? I tried adding an excludeBranches = branches/GITONLY-* and name the git branches GITONLY-something but that didn't work.

Best regards,

Angelo Diego Crabolu

[TMate Software Support]

Hello, Angelo

yes, it's possible and you're right, it should be set by using the 'excludeBranches' option in the way you've described,

but this option has to be set prior to initial translation. If you want to add this configuration to running mirror,

then you need to re-translate the repository by the command:

subgit install --rebuild <GIT_REPO>

Note, that this command will change commits hashes in the repository.

If nevertheless it doesn't work as expected even after that, then there might some configuration issue exist

could you please let me know your mapping configuration

or provide daemon log (GIT_REPO/subgit/logs/daemon.0.log) for analysis,

I'll try to find out what causes the issue and how to resolve it.

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with best regards,

Ildar Khusainov,

TMate Software,

http://tmatesoft.com/ git-svn import & mirror

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[TMate Software Support]

Hello, Angelo

I have to correct my previous answer: if the branch you mention in "excludeBranch" 

hasn't present before in SVN or in Git, then the 'rebuild' option is not needed, run

subgit install <GIT_REPO>

Sorry for that I didn't mention it yesterday.

Also, I'd like to add that there is a way to use Git-only branches without even touching mapping:

you can place git-only branches to a separate namespace in git, that isn't present in mapping

and those branches will become git-only. For example, create a branch in a 'gitonly' namespace:

git checkout -b gitonly/<branch name>

Thus new branches will be in 'gitonly' that isn't being translated to SVN.

Hope it will help.

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with best regards,

Ildar Khusainov,

TMate Software,

http://tmatesoft.com/ git-svn import & mirror