gitsvntrackrelease

#!/bin/bash
#
# *********************************************************************** #
# author: fmarcos83                                                       #
# email : fmarcos83@gmail.com                                             #
# A system to track svn branches after the repo was fetched               #
# inspired completely by this article                                     #
# *********************************************************************** #
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/296975/how-do-i-tell-git-svn-about-a-remote-branch-created-after-i-fetched-the-repo

#extracting the svn repository
#TODO: check for errors if we are not inside a git svn repo
requires="
This script only can work under a git svn repository
"
result=$(git svn info > /dev/null 3>&1 2>&1  );
if [[ 0 -lt $? ]]; then
    echo -e $requires;
    exit 1;
fi
svnRoot=$(git svn info | grep 'Root' | sed 's/Repository Root:\s*//g');
helpMessage="
Tool to trak remote releases with git svn\n
-b sets the name of the new svn remote release to track\n
-l sets the name of the new local release we want to sync with\n
"

OPTIND=1
options='b:l'
while getopts $options OPTION;
do
    case $OPTION in
        # gets the name of the branch we want to track
        b)
            #branch is the name of the new remote branch you want to sync to
            branch="$OPTARG"
            ;;
        # gets the name of the local branch we want to create
        l)
            #local branch is the name of the new local branch you want to create
            localbranch="$OPTARG"
            ;;
        t)
            type="$OPTARG"
            ;;
        ?)
            echo -e $helpMessage
            ;;
    esac
done

#branches path is assuming a default layout
newBranchRemotePath="$svnRoot/releases/$branch"

if [[ -z $branch ]]; then
    echo 'b) can not be empty'
    exit 1;
fi

if [[ -z $localbranch ]]; then
    localbranch="local/$branch"
fi

#TODO set sanity checks to check if we want to override some configuration
#or warn the user that the current configuration already exists

#adding a remote
$(git config --add svn-remote.$branch.url $newBranchRemotePath)
#telling git where to fetch the changes
$(git config --add svn-remote.$branch.fetch :refs/remotes/$branch)
#fetching the new changes
$(git svn fetch "$branch")
$(git checkout -b $localbranch -t $branch)