Comments on: git-mirrror – making it suck less

By: glandium

glandium — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:29:58 +0000

Federico: It does fetch anything that is a tag, and anything that is in refs/tags/subdir/* is a tag. *But* it doesn’t fetch tags that are not directly accessible from fetched heads, and my guess is that the tags are actually a commit off the branch it tags, like:

* tag
/
—-*—-*—-*—-* HEAD

By: Federico Mena

Federico Mena — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:21:16 +0000

Hmmm, maybe the “svn/” prefix for tags has something to do with this? (I.e. by default “fetch” may only fetch refs/tags/* but not refs/tags/SUBDIR/*)

By: Steven Walter

Steven Walter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:34:35 +0000

Sounds like you might be interested in yap: http://repo.or.cz/w/yap.git

yap is actually an entire git porcelain, but it is specifically designed to make interacting with subversion repositories easier (hopefully seamless). E.g., to clone a subversion repo:

yap clone (this is the same syntax as cloning a git repo)

At the end, you have a git repo with the full history from subversion. Obviously, that can take a long time, so you can host that git repo somewhere (git-mirror, for example). When users “yap clone” it, they too will have a git repo with full subversion history ready to fetch and push back to the original subversion server.

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:20:48 +0000

Oops, you were asking about how you could change this from the server end – mea culpa. The tip is still handy though

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:19:18 +0000

Rig your .gitconfig (man git-config), you can change default parameters of any git command

By: glandium

glandium — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:06:27 +0000

I guess Federico should have run git fetch -t instead of git fetch ; his .git/config additions should be unnecessary

By: Mathias Hasselmann

Mathias Hasselmann — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:54:06 +0000

Hi John,

Thanks for providing that mirror. Already saves zillions of electrons and quite some time, I guess.

So far I have just one wish: git downloads are much more efficient when the repository is packed. Therefore I’d like to see “git gc”, or at least “git repack” being run regularly on the mirrored repositories.

Thank you for providing this service,
Mathias

By: Pieter

Pieter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:53:02 +0000

How about git fetch –tags? As far as I know, ‘git fetch’ should fetch all tags automatically. I’ve never seen anyone add such a line, and I always receive my tags.