Git and Subversion :- New Subversion Branch Created

If you have read any of my previous blog posts before, you know that I am use Git in order to track Subversion repositories. Recently, I had another experience that I had to resolve and I wanted to make sure that I share it with you.

The team decided to cut a branch of the code that I have been tracking. After they did that, I ran git svn fetch. After doing this, Git realized that a new branch was created and it started to search through the subversion repository to pull back any history that it might not have.

This probably is a good idea, if I were tracking the entire Subversion history, but I am not. The result was Git was starting to pull back history that I didn't have in my Git repo, nor history that I wanted. It would have taken hours to pull in that amount of history, and as I mentioned, I was not interested in retaining the whole entire repository.

In order to resolve this, I performed the following command:

git svn fetch -r:HEAD --no-follow-parent

I think that the most important part of this command is the --no-follow-parent. This tells git not to look back in time at the history, and just pull in the information from the specified starting point.

I hope that this helps someone else out there....

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