From: Hin-Tak Leung Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 06:13:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-svn: use SVN::Ra::get_dir2 when possible 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 wrote: Hin-Tak Leung 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.