From: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:38:02 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn --stdlayout 's little quirk.
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In-Reply-To: <20110820183504.GA32179@dcvr.yhbt.net>

--- On Sat, 20/8/11, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

> > 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