From: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:16:19 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn: cloning an SVN repo with sub-branches and sub-tags
Message-ID: <4F75A413.409@pocock.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <92FA9CF9-7E8E-4DE6-8524-030A0AD33C9E@apple.com>

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?