Re: question: connecting to multiple remote svn projects

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 6, 2009, 19:51 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b130911061151q68ddcc58w209acf28c5eec2f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <hd1nv2$79e$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Dave Rodgman <dav1dr@eml.cc> wrote:

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> Given a layout in a single subversion repository like this:
>
> module1/branches/1.0/work
> module2/branches/1.0/work
>
> I would like achieve the following layout locally, in git:
>
> module1/work
> module2/work
>
> Obviously I can create multiple git repositories in separate directories,
> but I would like them to be in a single repository. I can also get the
> same layout as subversion, but this breaks various bits of build
> infrastructure.

Can you just create the file structure you want using symlinks? That would be the easiest way.

> I don't care about tracking the subversion branches in git, or being able
> to switch between subversion branches.

Don't care about tracking *any* subversion history, or just the history of branches other than the 1.0 branch you've listed above? I assume the latter, because otherwise the problem is easy (just copy the latest revision of the files into a git repo and commit).

Other options that might work for you: create a "superproject" branch and import the two modules using git-submodule, or else import them using git-subtree (http://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree). Or import the svn history and then use git-filter-branch to move stuff around.

Good luck.

Avery