From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:36:38 GMT
Subject: Re: How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches?
Message-ID: <20070311143638.GA7822@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <45F3EA37.2080502@tropezien.de>

On 2007-03-11 12:38:31 +0100, Georg Lohrer wrote:

> But times ago I have had the idea of not using the traditional
> structure of subversion for some of my repositories but using the
> repository directly as single directory - no trunk, no tags, no
> branches. That was because I thought only a geek would have the
> "complicated" way for only a few files without any need for tags and
> branches. And now the git-svnimport does not seem to be able to
> handle a SVN-repos structure like mine:
>
> ~/svnrepos/
>      |------- projectA
>                  |---- foo.cpp
>                  |---- foo.h
>
> I want to import projectA into git _with_ the commit-history (there
> are of course no tags and no branches). Is there a way to do that
> with git-svnimport? Or do I have to throw away all the details,
> checkout projectA and reimport it as initial version with git?

You could try something like this:

  trunk: svnrepos/projectA
  tags: svnrepos/dummytags
  branches: svnrepos/dummybranches

I haven't tested, but I think that kind of maneouver should work.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle