git-svn clone duplicates content

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Mar 13, 2008, 09:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20080313095215.GA22241@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

Hi list,

if I

  git-svn clone --stdlayout svn://svn.debian.org/svn/python-modules/packages/python-docutils

then I get

  drwx------ 3 madduck madduck 4096 2008-03-13 10:11 debian/
  drwx------ 3 madduck madduck 4096 2008-03-13 10:11 trunk/
  drwx------ 3 madduck madduck 4096 2008-03-13 10:11 trunk/debian/

and the diff between the two debian directories is equivalent to the last commit to the trunk. If I create a new branch off the remote 'trunk' branch, then the trunk/ directory will be gone, as it should.

I am a bit wary to dcommit off anything else than master though for I've already killed SVN repos with git-svn in the past. I'd rather not to that to Debian's python-modules repo, or else would have to spend the rest of my life hidden on some island.

It seems that master is branched off a tag in this case. Does anyone have an idea what's going on? Is this something weird in the svn or with git-svn?

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what do you mean, it's not packaged in debian?
 
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