[Bioc-devel] Initial setup of git svn with existing GitHub repo - upstream working tree history error

[Keegan Korthauer]

Hi bioc-devel,

I am trying set up git svn for my existing GitHub repo for my Bioconductor package scDD.  I would like to be able to keep all of the development history in my preexisting GitHub repo, so I followed the instructions for Scenario 2 at http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-mirror/ <http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-mirror/>.  However, when I try the ‘git svn rebase’ command I get the ‘dreaded’ error mentioned in the troubleshooting section (‘unable to determine upstream SVN information from working tree history’).  

I guessed that this error was a result of some commits that were made between the package being accepted to Bioconductor and the current state of my Github repo’s master branch.  I followed the directions a the file that was linked to as a reference in the troubleshooting section of the above link (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9805980/unable-to-determine-upstream-svn-information-from-working-tree-history <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9805980/unable-to-determine-upstream-svn-information-from-working-tree-history>), including a hard reset of a copy of the master branch to an earlier commit that reflects the parent state of the svn repo, then git svn fetch, but I still get the same error message as above.  

If anyone has any other suggestions on how I can resolve this conflict between svn and git, please let me know.  Thanks!

Best,
Keegan


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Keegan Korthauer, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/~keegan



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