Re: git-svn and submodules

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2007, 14:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20071015144513.GB7351@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <05CAB148-56ED-4FF1-8AAB-4BA2A0B70C2C@lrde.epita.fr>

On 2007-10-15 09:07:21 +0200, Benoit SIGOURE wrote:

>   - git svn create-ignore (to create one .gitignore per directory
> from the svn:ignore properties. This has the disadvantage of
> committing the .gitignore during the next dcommit,

I built ignore support for git-svnignore a long time ago. It converts the per-directory svn:ignore to per-directory .gitignore at commit import time, which is very handy:

-I <ignorefile_name>::
        Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this
        name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore
        syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion patterns
        directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.)

The only downside with that is that svn ignore patterns are non-recursive, while git ignore patterns are recursive. This could be solved by prefixing them with a "/".

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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