From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:15:05 GMT Subject: Re: git svn's performance on cloning mono's branches/tags... Message-ID: <4A445959.6090403@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <3ace41890906251739r45b3eae9oe1b7e32886defc0f@mail.gmail.com> Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > (I'm not on list so please CC) - I am trying to git svn clone mono's > repository, and for some strange reason it is doing a complete check > out from revision 1 all the way to each branch/tag . Is this normal or > am I doing anything wrong? I have git svn clone a few other things > recently (R, ghostscript) and I don't remember git doing this, but R > is quite a normal svn layout and I think I only have ghostcript trunk > (no branch/tag). > > What I did was this: I started out with just git-svn clone trunk > (which generated the first two [now-commented out] lines), then I > thought I also want 2.4 branch so I added the next commented-out > section, and ran 'git svn fetch --all'. Then I thought I like the > whole thing - so I commented out most of it and added the 4 lines as > blow - which is also my current git config. > > The problem is that it seems to treat every tag as a branch, This is normal. SVN makes no real distinction between tags and branches, so git-svn has no way of detecting which is which. SVN also allows committing to "tags", so it doesn't make sense for git to store what SVN calls tags as git tags. As for your other questions, I don't know. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.