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Re: git-svn: Fails to drop leading path from empty dir name

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Nov 22, 2009, 23:25 UTC
Message-ID
<20091122232504.GA28127@dcvr.yhbt.net>
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<20091122134638.GA12233@atjola.homenet>
Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi Eric,
> 
> the stuff to create empty directories fails to strip leading path
> components, e.g. when using
> "git svn clone -s svn://whatever/project/trunk".
> 
> Instead of creating the empty directory "foo" in the repo root, it
> creates "project/trunk/foo".
> 
> Ad hoc patch for the test case below.
> 
> Björn
> 
> diff --git a/t/t9146-git-svn-empty-dirs.sh b/t/t9146-git-svn-empty-dirs.sh
> index 5948544..9e22089 100755
> --- a/t/t9146-git-svn-empty-dirs.sh
> +++ b/t/t9146-git-svn-empty-dirs.sh
> @@ -82,4 +82,27 @@ test_expect_success 'git svn mkdirs -r works' '
>  	)
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success 'initialize trunk' '
> +	for i in trunk trunk/a trunk/"weird file name"
> +	do
> +		svn_cmd mkdir -m "mkdir $i" "$svnrepo"/"$i"
> +	done
> +'
> +
Hi Björn,

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out exactly what you mean here, can you double check your tests? Annotations below, thanks

> +test_expect_success 'clone trunk' 'git svn clone -s "$svnrepo" trunk'
                                                    ^^            ^^^^^
                                                           Huh?
> +test_expect_success 'empty directories in trunk exist' '
> +	(
> +		cd cloned &&
                   ^^^^^^ - ?
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> +		for i in trunk/a trunk/"weird file name"
> +		do
> +			if ! test -d "$i"
> +			then
> +				echo >&2 "$i does not exist"
> +				exit 1
> +			fi
> +		done
-- 
Eric Wong
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  4. git svn: strip leading path when making empty dirsEric Wong, Nov 23, 2009

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