From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:20:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting correct tree layout when importing svn repo into git
Message-ID: <37fcd2780809161620v38d9ade0sc1a2715f79501c6f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cfd18e0f0809161505g4c04bd88vaf4fd7c40f67b243@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Michael Kerrisk
<mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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