Planet SoC

I’ve been trying to automate the updating of my git-svn repos on my server via cron and I’ve finally succeeded in getting something working so I thought I’d share how I’ve got things setup since there seems to be a lack of information about how to do this.
First hurdle was git-svn doesn’t understand about bare repositories - it always looks for a .git directory. Fortunately this is easily solved since git-svn does support the $GIT_DIR environment variable. So I simply set this to . and run the git-svn commands from within the repository directory. So I initialise the repository with the appropriate git-svn init command and then call fetch to retrieve the svn history.
The next problem is that the refs fetched using git-svn are placed in refs/remotes which isn’t cloned when you do a regular git clone. So we need to plugin to the hooks to update the refs after we update the repository; an example script of how to this is provided below (Taken from dscho.git):
#!/bin/sh
git for-each-ref –format=”%(refname)” refs/remotes |
sed “s/refs\/remotes\///” |
while read ref
do
git update-ref refs/heads/svn/$ref refs/remotes/$ref
done
git for-each-ref –format=”%(refname)” refs/heads/svn |
sed “s/refs\/heads\/svn\///” |
while read ref
do
if ! git-rev-parse refs/remotes/$ref > /dev/null 2>&1
then
git update-ref -d refs/heads/svn/$ref refs/heads/svn/$ref
fi
done
I call the script from the post-update script (which you should make executable by running chmod +x hooks/post-update). This script suffices but doesn’t quite do what I’d like; I’d like the tags to be placed in refs/tags/svn rather than refs/heads/svn, but the script linked will do for me for now.
My cloned repositories are available at http://git.jsharpe.net/, unfortunately I can’t offer the git protocol since my host doesn’t allow it. As I get time I’ll convert more of the Gnome repositories; I’ve only converted the ones I know I’m going to be working on for the moment.