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Re: git svn --stdlayout 's little quirk.

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HLHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Date
Aug 21, 2011, 09:38 UTC
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--- On Sat, 20/8/11, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
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> > I think I found a small bug in git 1.7.6. Having
> "trunk" at the end of
> > the url in combination of --stdlayout is wrong, but it
> looks like that
> > git-svn tries to cope, but doesn't go try far enough:
> > 
> > Doing this:
> > ----------------
> > git svn clone --stdlayout http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> android-quick-settings
> 
> --stdlayout expects the "root" path of the code you're
> interested
> in (not necessarily the SVN repository root, but in this
> case they
> could be the same).
> 
> Try the following instead:
> 
> git svn clone --stdlayout \
>   http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn
> android-quick-settings
I know this is the correct way - what I meant was that, having "trunk" at the end is wrong but git-svn appears to try to correct it automatically, but haven't quite succceeded.
Hin-Tak 
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  1. Hin-Tak LeungAug 20, 2011
  2. Eric WongAug 20, 2011
  3. Hin-Tak LeungAug 21, 2011
  4. Michael J GruberAug 22, 2011
  5. Hin-Tak LeungAug 22, 2011
  6. Michael J GruberAug 22, 2011
  7. Hin-Tak LeungAug 22, 2011
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