From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:35:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn --stdlayout 's little quirk.
Message-ID: <20110820183504.GA32179@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <1313859988.60143.YahooMailClassic@web29518.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> first of all, thanks for a great tool - use it daily!

You're welcome :>

> 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

-- 
Eric Wong