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Re: git-svn: cloning an SVN repo with sub-branches and sub-tags

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DPDaniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>
Date
Mar 30, 2012, 12:16 UTC
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On 29/03/2012 15:40, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
> You can make this work, but it is very fragile, doesn't scale well, and it only works on recent versions of git. For example, from the LLVM clang project:
...
> branches = cfe/branches/Apple/*:refs/remotes/svn/misc/Apple/*
> branches = cfe/branches/Apple/Necropolis/*:refs/remotes/svn/misc/AppleNecropolis/*

In the first line, (Apple/*), can it accidentally think that Necropolis is a branch, when it actually appears to be a directory containing branches?

Or does it consider all the lines in the file together?
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