Re: git svn project shuffle

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2010, 16:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20101015164811.GA10204@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimxbmk2u=4d1b1LS+GMp9ry__4TtEx5UMJPk4-5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi again,

Christopher Snapp wrote:

> If you remember my old project's trunk has been copied to a
> subdirectory of the new project's trunk.  So, oldproj/trunk is now
> newproj/trunk/oldproj.

Yeah, I was ignoring this part. :) git svn is not really wired for it.

The instructions were meant to also be usable in a case where oldproj and newproj are entirely independent repositories.

> When I do a git svn clone of the newproj I
> would expect it to follow the svn copy that created
> newproj/trunk/oldproj but it doesn't.

If the layout has been relatively stable before, maybe "git svn --no-follow-parent" would give some joy.

Still I would be interested in hearing where the grafting procedure went wrong. If you end up tracking it down to a single step, do please let us know.

Regards, Jonathan