Re: git-svn: File was not found in commit

> Morgan Christiansson <git@mog.se> wrote:
> > The "Ignoring path" message appears to be coming from git which is  
> > refusing to commit the .git directory. Which leads to git-svn being  
> > unaware of the files being ignored and giving an error when it can't  
> > find them.
> 
> > I'm personally fine with these files being ignored by git, but git-svn  
> > needs to be aware that they are not added to the repository.
> 
> Hi Morgan,
> Can you try the following rough patch and see it it fixes things
> for you?  Thanks!

> From 559f4b673592f364e9773f2ba65caf09b138521b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:23:38 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH/RFC] git-svn: avoid importing nested repos
> 
> Some SVN repositories contain .git repositories within them
> (hopefully accidentally checked in).  Since git refuses to
> check in ".git" repositories, this can be a problem when
> fetching updates from SVN.
> 
> This seems to repull the entire blob from SVN everytime a user
> changes something inside the ".git" directory on the SVN side,
> but hopefully this will be a rare case and the SVN users will
> correct the error quickly.
> 
> The test could probably be expanded to be more thorough...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>