From: Martin Langhoff Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:13:18 GMT Subject: Re: git-svn strangeness with tags and Squirrelmail repo Message-ID: <46a038f90706200213p2d1e3ba3nf58107584afe4901@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070620072446.GC25010@muzzle> On 6/20/07, Eric Wong wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: > > First -- kudos to Eric Wong and company: git-svn can deal with the odd > > errors and invalid chunks of XML or UTF-8 that SVN spits at me every > > once in a while. And it "just works" in 99% of the situation. Great > > stuff. > > You're welcome. At the same time I'm not reallu sure what you mean by > "odd errors and invalid chunks of XML or UTF-8 that SVN spits at me" > unless it's some joke about SVN I'm not getting :) Oh - the Squirrelmail SVN repo is one of those that have commits that SVN itself cannot read due to invalid data. So git-svnimport, by virtue of using the Perl SVN bindings, fails to import it. git-svn, by some other virtue, imports it perfectly ;-) > > [svn-remote "svn"] > > url = http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/squirrelmail > > fetch = trunk/squirrelmail:refs/heads/svn/trunk > > branches = branches/*/squirrelmail:refs/heads/svn/* > > tags = tags/*/squirrelmail:refs/tags/svn/* > > git-svn expects 'refs/remotes/' in the local ref name. Otherwise, > the left-hand side is correct. Good to know! > > and when I do that -- trunk and branches do what I want, but tags > > aren't imported anymore. :-/ > > Now its odd to me that trunks and branches even works with those ref > names. I'm lucky then ;-) My reason for the "alternative" locations is to match a bit better the v1.5.0 behaviour re branches, tags and remotes, and to run the import directly into a bare repo on git.catalyst.net.nz - Tags, by virtue of landing under refs/remotes are being treated as heads rather than tags. That's why I want to have them in refs/tags//* - If branches + trunk end up in refs/remotes then my bare repo / gateway doesn't work well - -refs/remotes aren't cloned or fetched - gitweb refuses to show those heads/tags (maybe it's because it's an old version?) cheers, martin