[Lazarus] Is there a way to checkout a specific subversion tag or branch in a Git mirror of a Subversion repository?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 2015-03-26 06:43, vfclists . wrote:
>> Is there a way to checkout a specific subversion tag or branch in a Git
>> mirror of a Subversion repository?
>
> If your Git mirror cloned all the details you need (trunk, branches and
> tags), then yes. Simply checkout the branch you want using "git checkout
> -b <name_of_branch>". Setting up such a git mirror is quite hard though
> (dependent on how SubVersion was abused) - at least it was when I last
> tried to do it.

I did it once for FPC, the process ran for more than 24 hours.

Michael.