From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:53:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: don't allow globs to match regular files
Message-ID: <20070418075353.GA2758@hand.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b2yjfcw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> 
> > git only tracks the histories of full directories, not
> > that of individual files.  Sometimes, SVN users will
> > place[1] a regular file in the directory designated
> > for subdirectories of branches or tags.
> >
> > Thanks to jrockway on #git for pointing this out.
> >
> > [1] mistakenly or otherwise, such as a README
> 
> It is not clear what this "glob" means to me.  Enlightenment?

Basically I can define an [svn-remote] in the config much in the same
way that a native git [remote] is defined:

[svn-remote "svn"]
	url = svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-glibc
	branches = glibc-package/branches/*:refs/remotes/*
	tags = glibc-package/tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*

> My cursory reading of the code is that you are grabbing things
> under branches/ and tags/, expecting each of what you would find
> there is the whole-tree of a revision, and do not want to see
> any regular file immediately underneath branches/ and tags/.
> 
> Is that what is happening here?

Yes. 

-- 
Eric Wong