Re: git-svnimport

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2006, 03:16 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90602031916x6cfb9e6bg7dfa0fb1cc237dac@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <16255.1139021263@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU>

On 2/4/06, Jason Riedy <ejr@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

Show 5 quoted lines

> Looking through the git-svnimport source makes it appear
> difficult to just snarf just one directory (maybe /) out
> of a svn repository.  Actually, it makes everything svn-
> related appear difficult.  Why should I worry about
> memory management by default in Perl?!?

I think that the SVN internals are so yucky that we're lucky to get away with "just" that bit of memory-handling crud.

>  It'd be nice if
> there were an git-svnimport-trivial that just snarfed a
> single URL without tags or branches.

We're definitely needing some updates to the doco for svnimport to make it easier. Maybe some examples of real life scenarios with different repo layouts

> I have to deal with a few repos with bizarre directory
> structures...

looks like you're the man for the job ;-)

cheers,

martin