From: Leandro Lucarella <llucax@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:36:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git-svnimport to take "" as the trunk directory.
Message-ID: <20070814123604.GA10472@homero.springfield.home>
In-Reply-To: <85vebi3bzv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup, el 14 de agosto a las 07:45 me escribiste:
> Alberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Some repositories started with the trunk in "/" and then moved it to the
> > standard "trunk/" location.
> >
> > On these repositories, the correct thing would be to call
> > git-svnimport -T "",
> 
> I would not call that the best solution: it makes the bad decision
> from the past impact useful work in the future.  I very much like git
> having a good toplevel directory structure.

Besides the example of a mutating trunk directory, I have repositories
where there is only trunk (in "/" directory) and it never changes. Without
this patch, I can't even import that kind of repositories.

With repositories with a mutating trunk directory, I used the options -s
and -l to incrementally import the repository. For example:
$ git svnimport -l 100 -T '' <repo>
and then
$ git svnimport -s 101 -T 'trunk' <repo>

> There are two approaches possible: one is to version the mapping
> trunk/tags/branches.  Another would be if one could tell git-svn where
> to stick stuff that does not sort into trunk/tags/branches.
> Incidentally, I've seen repositories that have something like a
> "support" or "vendor" directory, too.

The patch is for git-svnimport, not git-svn (but maybe git-svn has
the same problem). Anyways, a way to map trunk/tags/branches to different
directories in different versions would be great, but is a different
problem than -T not supporting an empty string.

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