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Re: Getting correct tree layout when importing svn repo into git

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Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 16, 2008, 23:20 UTC
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> I'm currently trying to import an svn repository, along with its tags,
> into git, and everything seems okay except that after the import I
> expect to have the following structure to my checked out repository:
>
>    [root-dir]
>        .git
>        <checked-out-files>
>
> But instead I end up with
>
>    [root-dir]
>        .git
>        man-pages               <-- name of my svn project
>            <checked-out-files>
>
> I've tried out a few different command-line flag settings but so far I
> haven't managed to get the desired layout.  I guess that I'm missing
> something trivial, but I haven't worked out what it is so far.
>
> The commands I'm using to do the import are:
>
> $ git svn init file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/ -t tags -T trunk -b branches
Probably, you want to run:

$ git svn init file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/ -t tags -T trunk/man-pages -b branches

Dmitry
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