git-svnimport -- http/dav authentication notes

After a lot of trial and error against a server I don't control (so I can't log things on) I've managed to use svn-import on it and it mostly seems to work. Kind of. It's slowly grinding through the commits.

To make it short, I seem to be doing well with:

   git-svnimport -t tags -T trunk -b branches -o svntrunk -v
         'http://martin%40catalyst.net.nz:password@nameless.server.org/svn/someproject'

The repo has LDAP authentication, and the username is my email address, so I guessed that url-encoding would work, and it did.

svnimport is a bit of a mistery actually. I often know if it's really doing the import or the files are going to be there but empty. SVN is so flexible in its "everything is a directory" way of thinking that if I mess up -t or -b I get the commits alright... but no files.

Strange world, svn ;-)

martin