Re: How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches?

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2007, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20070311202620.GB15336@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <45F434E9.7040003@tropezien.de>

On 2007-03-11 17:57:13 +0100, Georg Lohrer wrote:

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> Karl Hasselström schrieb:
>
> > You could try something like this:
> >
> >  trunk: svnrepos/projectA
> >  tags: svnrepos/dummytags
> >  branches: svnrepos/dummybranches
>
> yes, that does the trick. I use:
>
> $ cd ~/tmp/git-test
> $ tar xvfj fooRepos.tar.bz2
> $ mv fooRepos foorRepos.svnrepos
> $ svn mkdir file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/fooRepos.svnrepos/dummytags
> $ svn mkdir file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/foorRepos.svnrepos/dummybranches
> $ mkdir fooRepos.git; cd fooRepos.git
> $ git-svnimport -b dummybranches -t dummytags -T projectA file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/fooRepos.svnrepos

Did you try importing without creating the dummy* directories? I think it may work even if they don't exist.

> Unfortunately there was a bunch of directories instead of a single
> projectA-directory. Do I have to repeat the above mentioned sequence
> for every directory (projectA, projectB, ...) or is there a simple
> way of git-svnimport'ing into an existing git-repository?

You could try this:

  trunk: dummy
  tags: dummy
  branches: svnrepos

That should turn svnrepos/projectA into the branch projectA, svnrepos/projectB into the branch projectB, and so on.

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