[PATCH 1/2] git-svn: multiple fetch/branches/tags keys are supported

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2011, 01:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20111220012350.GC20979@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <20111220012236.GB20979@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>

From: Nathan Gray <n8gray@n8gray.org>

"git svn" can be configured to use multiple fetch, branches, and tags refspecs by passing multiple --branches or --tags options at init time or editing the configuration file later, which can be handy when working with messy Subversion repositories. Add a note to the configuration section documenting how this works.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/git-svn.txt |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 34ee7850..66fd60a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -923,6 +923,18 @@ comma-separated list of names within braces. For example:
 	tags = tags/{1.0,2.0}/src:refs/remotes/tags/*
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Multiple fetch, branches, and tags keys are supported:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+[svn-remote "messy-repo"]
+	url = http://server.org/svn
+	fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk
+	fetch = branches/demos/june-project-a-demo:refs/remotes/project-a/demos/june-demo
+	branches = branches/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
+	branches = branches/demos/2011/*:refs/remotes/project-a/2011-demos/*
+	tags = tags/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Note that git-svn keeps track of the highest revision in which a branch
 or tag has appeared. If the subset of branches or tags is changed after
 fetching, then .git/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove (or

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