Re: Efficient cloning from svn (with multiple branches/tags subdirs)

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> > Bruno Harbulot <Bruno.Harbulot@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> What surprises me is that it looks like it's looping over and over,
> >> since sometimes it starts back from SVN revision 1 when it's trying to
> >> import a new tag.
> >
> > Yeah, that's an unfortunate thing about the flexibility of Subversion,
> > basically anything can be a "tag" or a directory and it's extremely
> > hard for git svn to support any uncommon cases for tags/branches
> > out-of-the box, so the manual config editing is needed.
> 
> I've been thinking about this myself for some time.  One option that
> might be "interesting" would be to just grab the *entire* svn tree
> (from the root), and then use git-subtree[1] to slice and dice it into
> branches using your local copy of git (which is fast and uses no
> bandwidth) instead of during the svn fetch (which is slow and uses
> lots of bandwidth).  I think it would also simplify the git-svn code
> quite a lot, at least for fetching, since there would always be a
> global view of the tree and SVN things like "copy branch A to tag B"
> would just be exactly that.
> 
> Of course I have no time to code this up myself, so I apologize for
> just dumping ideas on you without code behind them.  If this inspires
> anyone, I'd be happy to help with any missing features (or
> documentation) this exposes in git-subtree, though.

> Have fun,
> 
> Avery
> 
> [1] http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree