Re: git svn --stdlayout 's little quirk.

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Aug 22, 2011, 09:01 UTC
Message-ID: <4E521AD3.4040204@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Hin-Tak Leung venit, vidit, dixit 21.08.2011 11:38:

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> --- On Sat, 20/8/11, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> 
>>> I think I found a small bug in git 1.7.6. Having
>> "trunk" at the end of
>>> the url in combination of --stdlayout is wrong, but it
>> looks like that
>>> git-svn tries to cope, but doesn't go try far enough:
>>>
>>> Doing this:
>>> ----------------
>>> git svn clone --stdlayout http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
>> android-quick-settings
>>
>> --stdlayout expects the "root" path of the code you're
>> interested
>> in (not necessarily the SVN repository root, but in this
>> case they
>> could be the same).
>>
>> Try the following instead:
>>
>> git svn clone --stdlayout \
>>   http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn
>> android-quick-settings
> 
> I know this is the correct way - what I meant was that, having "trunk" at the end is wrong but git-svn appears to try to correct it automatically, but haven't quite succceeded.

It is not trying to do that at all. git-svn is trying to figure out what the "base path" is in an svn repo which possibly hosts multiple repos, and that is what the message reports.

Michael