I am using git with an svn repository everything is going fine I did all my branching with git so I did not branch on svn but I branched with git and pushed those branches to a separate location. Then I commited changes from the branch when needed.
But now I want to create some branches that actually exist on svn I tried:
$ git svn branch someFeature -m "message"
,and I got this:
$ git svn branch someFeature -m "message"
Multiple branch paths defined for Subversion repository.
You must specify where you want to create the branch with the
--destination argument.
How should I specify the destination I can't figure this out and the man page isn't that clear also.
Answer
You have multiple (or no) directories from svn marked as place for branches. Look into you .git/config file, there would be section like that:
[svn-remote "svn"]
url = file:///someurlto/svn
fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/*
branches = branches2/*:refs/remotes/*
There will be multiple entries for branches. (Alternately, if you don't have any branch entries, the first line should work with a standard SVN repo layout.)
So, when branching you must point in which directory the branch should be created:
git svn branch someFeature -m "test" --destination branches2
where the last element is one of the directories from branches lines in .git/config.