Question

I converted a very large svn repository to a git repository with

git svn init svn/server/project --no-metadata
git svn fetch

This took the better part of two days to finish.

This repo should have quite a few branches but when I do “git branch” I get nothing but the master. They are listed under the branches directory, but shouldn’t I see them with “git branch” as well?

“git branch -a” only shows master and remotes/git-svn.

Was it the –no-metadata switch that did this?

Answer 1

When initializing the git repository you need to use either the --trunk, --branches and --tags options or the --stdlayout option to git svn init in order to tell it the path to the directories to the trunk, branches and tags directories in the subversion repository.

See the manual page for git-svn for additional details.