Git: How does git svn fetch work?

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Jacob Krieg picture Jacob Krieg · Jul 2, 2013 · Viewed 19.5k times · Source

How does git svn fetch work? Where is that branch which is fetched so that I can merge or rebase with my master or other branch? Where is the data fetched because git remote doesn't give me anything on my git svn repository?

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Jacob Krieg picture Jacob Krieg · Jul 6, 2013

This is how git svn fetch works:

When using git-svn you don't have remotes of the svn server as you have when using git, you just have a link to the remote svn server in your local .gitconfig file.

If you want to update your current branch to the last revision you can use git svn rebase. But if your svn project is big you might be in the situation where you don't know if you the last revision is a successful build. And if you want to update to a specific revision that you're sure is a successful build, for example you use Jenkins which gives you the last successful build, you have to first fetch to the revision you want and then rebase with the fetched commits.

For this you can git svn fetch -r <revision>. This will fetch locally the commits till the wanted revision. To rebase the fetched data you must use git svn rebase -l or git svn rebase --local. You don't have to be online to do a local rebase.

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