Git Migration: github with svn access

[John Ralls]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> On woensdag 9 november 2011, Yawar Amin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Christian Stimming
>> 
>> <christian at cstimming.de>wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Same for me - I was able to "svn checkout" one of my other normal git
>>> repos,
>>> but with gnucash I, too, got "502 Bad Gateway". However, it came up with
>>> a "trunk" and "branches" directory, so that I had to append "trunk" to
>>> the URL
>>> to get a useful source tree. For gnucash, this didn't change the problem,
>>> though.
>> 
>> I think this is the issue I mentioned yesterday--you need a `master' branch
>> in the Git repo to do a Subversion checkout.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Yawar
> 
> I'm tempted to try this out by manually adding a master branch in the main git 
> repository on github, but I don't know if this would confuse the svn-git 
> syncrhonisation we have currently.
> 
> Anyone know this ?

It won't confuse it, but it won't get updated, either. 

I think for experimentation you could add the branch, see if you can do a subversion checkout, then delete the branch.

Regards,
John Ralls