Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] git-svn: Allow certain refs to be ignored

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Apr 21, 2010, 07:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20100421071759.GA15680@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <o2xc8b3bef91004201430m10bbe060q7d8ebd3a1ac4c3bd@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org> wrote:

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> This change allows certain refs to be ignored while importing svn
> history.  This is useful for:
> 
>  - Performing overlapping transforms from svn's branch namespace into
>    git's namespace.  The overlapping refs can be ignored.  It might
>    potentially be a better idea in this case to make git-svn assign
>    precedence according to the order in which the branch patterns are
>    specified, perhaps with an option to trigger that behavior (which
>    is out of scope for this patch series).
> 
>  - Avoiding some refs that represent bad svn operations which cause
>    git-svn to take a very long time.  Example: copying one module
>    accidentally into another module's branch namespace.

Hi Michael, these are definitely good things to have.  Thanks!

> A new config directive called "ignore-refs" implements this feature by
> means of a regex of refs to ignore.  I haven't written the necessary
> git-svn documentation updates for it yet.

See Junio's and my other email.

> In addition, I ran across a problem where git-svn would die if a
> parent ref did not exist.  This might possibly have been exposed as a
> result of the first patch.  I threw an eval around the offending code,
> and that seems to work, though some review would be appreciated.

I'm cc-ing Sam for this one. It looks good to me given the first patch would cause more refs to not exist.

-- 
Eric Wong