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Re: git svn fetches the same revision multiple times for non-trunk branches

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Jul 25, 2009, 10:51 UTC
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<20090725105111.GB13534@dcvr.yhbt.net>
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<CEAA2460-501C-48C1-BC33-B92A68C2161B@gmail.com>
Robert Zeh <robert.a.zeh@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am seeing git svn fetch repeatedly retrieve the same Subversion  
> revisions when it finds branches in our Subversion repository. We are  
> using the standard Subversion repository layout, with top level /trunk, 
> /tags, and /branches directories (and the git repository was created with 
> 'git svn init -s'). However, the problematic branches are often copies 
> made from a subdirectory inside of trunk, instead of trunk.
Hi Robert,

Yes, this is a known problem with some repositories and there's no automatic/easy[1] way to handle it with globbing tags/* or branches/*.

You can try to track each tagged project independently or to setup individual fetche lines (like the one generated for trunk). in .git/config for each tag/branch.

[1] - Unfortunately SVN allows way too much freedom and thus ambiguity in how it treats tags/branches and that doesn't allow mapping those things to git very easily.

-- 
Eric Wong
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