Re: [PATCH v2] git-svn: use SVN::Ra::get_dir2 when possible

From: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Nov 1, 2014, 06:13 UTC
Message-ID: <1414822394.95382.YahooMailBasic@web172305.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141101031352.GA17306@dcvr.yhbt.net>

-------------------------------------------- On Sat, 1/11/14, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

 Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
 wrote:

> > While my 2.10 + 11 patches

 continue to fetch, where it was stuck, now
 > it does "Couldn't find
 revmap..." - also, the single branch clone is doing
 > the 'trunk/branches/... thing - are
 these supposed to happen?

> I'm afraid this is a problem with the vbox

 repo not publishing anything
 but trunk, but
 their svn:mergeinfo refers to non-public branches.

> This shows only changes to

 trunk:

>     svn log -v http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox

> I do not know what their

 development process is like.  From the looks of
 it, every change is made by a
 "vboxsync" user.  I suspect that's driven
 by an automated export script, and the real
 development happens in a
 different (private)
 repo...
 
They are Sun/Oracle technology so have that sort of style, I think.
(Think Java and everything to do with Java).

I did get a bit confused about that - their web code broswing interface shows a number of merges and deleted branches.