Re: git-svn: creating tags from a subdirectory of trunk

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mar 15, 2009, 23:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20090315232105.GA21667@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <632a37a0903151418u483ca6cal1582518b9120da8e@mail.gmail.com>

Tom Huybrechts <tom.huybrechts@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to setup a git mirror of a svn repository.  The tags in
> this repository are not created trunk it self, but from subdirectories
> of trunk. The tags and branches are in the standard places.
> e.g:
> /trunk/main -> tags/main-1
> /trunk/plugins/foo -> tags/foo-1
> /trunk/plugins/bar -> tags/bar-1
> 
> I run 'git svn clone -s svn-url target'. It starts going over the
> history nicely until it reaches the first branch. It calls this branch
> something like tags/tag-name@revision, and starts retrieving the
> entire project history again from r1. This is repeated for every
> branch.

Hi Tom,

This is a known problem with some repositories. My suggestion is to use individual "fetch" directives for each of those tags you want to follow.

The -s/--stdlayout is only for projects that follow the SVN-recommended repository layout exactly and we haven't thought of a generic way to handle those non-standard tags in repos...

-- 
Eric Wong