From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:23:50 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/2] git-svn: multiple fetch/branches/tags keys are supported Message-ID: <20111220012350.GC20979@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20111220012236.GB20979@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> From: Nathan Gray "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 --- 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 -- 1.7.8