Unable to use git-svn in Mac

Question

I installed Git with svn in MacPorts by

sudo port install git-core +svn

I have tried to use git-svn unsuccessfully by

git svn egUrl

and

git-svn egUrl

How can you use Git-svn in Mac after MacPorts' installation?

Answer 1

You have to start by cloning a Svn repository into git. In my case, I use the following (my git-core is v1.6.x):

git svn clone https://myrepos.com/project -T trunk -b branches/*/* --prefix=svn/

The cloning may take a while, but once complete, you'll be able to interact with your new git repository using git commands and then pull/commit to svn using git svn rebase and git svn dcommit, respectively.

This is a bit high level and doesn't offer much detail, but hopefully it will at least get you started.

Answer 2

Don’t forget to git init your directory before calling git svn init.