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Re: git svn --stdlayout 's little quirk.

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Aug 20, 2011, 18:35 UTC
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Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> first of all, thanks for a great tool - use it daily!
You're welcome :>
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> I think I found a small bug in git 1.7.6. Having "trunk" at the end of
> the url in combination of --stdlayout is wrong, but it looks like that
> git-svn tries to cope, but doesn't go try far enough:
> 
> Doing this:
> ----------------
> git svn clone --stdlayout http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ android-quick-settings

--stdlayout expects the "root" path of the code you're interested in (not necessarily the SVN repository root, but in this case they could be the same).

Try the following instead:
git svn clone --stdlayout \
  http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn android-quick-settings
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Eric Wong
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  1. Hin-Tak LeungAug 20, 2011
  2. Eric WongAug 20, 2011
  3. Hin-Tak LeungAug 21, 2011
  4. Michael J GruberAug 22, 2011
  5. Hin-Tak LeungAug 22, 2011
  6. Michael J GruberAug 22, 2011
  7. Hin-Tak LeungAug 22, 2011
  8. Andreas KreyAug 23, 2011

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