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Re: git-svnimport

From
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2006, 03:12 UTC
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<46a038f90602031912l1d26b615u563e8a9e9d8c625c@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2/4/06, Jason Harrison <jharrison@linuxbs.org> wrote:
> I am trying to import from an svn repository into a git repository using
> git-svnimport.  So far my attempts have failed.  Here is what I have done so
> far.

You always want to be passing the branches and tags parameters explicitly. SVN repos have so many weird layouts that svnimport does a bad job without them. Trial and error has worked for me ;-)

See for instance:
  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0512/14069.html
regards,
martin
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