How to remove subversion remote in git?

Question

I have a git repository that was originally created using git-svn. Now I have a git server that I push to and the svn repository has been lost. Can I remove the svn remote? How?

Answer 1

You can edit the .git/config file and remove the section associated with the remote you want to remove.

The lines you want to remove probably look roughly like this:

[svn-remote "svn"]     url = url-of-svn-repository/trunk     fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn 

This will remove the remote from Git, but you will still have the relationship between the Git commits and the SVN commits stored in .git/svn. You can remove this whole directory if you want to get rid of all your SVN remotes. If you want to get rid of just one SVN remote and keep others, you will need to look at the directory structure and only remove the ones associated with the remote you are removing.

Answer 2

Doing it via most *nix shells, bash or mingw32:

cd ~/your_repo git config --remove-section svn 

or whatever section you have when you view the config (cat .git/config). For example, the next line would remove the same config section described in Eric's solution:

git config --remove-section svn-remote.svn 

next remove all svn stuff inside the .git folder (svn, logs, and refs). Which is also what Sergey suggests.

rm -rf .git/svn .git/{logs/,}refs/remotes/{git-,}svn/ 

garbage collection just for good measure:

git gc 

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