Re: Problem importing from SVN repository with branches/tags at multiple levels using git-svn

> We have an SVN repository that has a structure for tags (likewise for
> branches) like this:
> 
> tags/tag1
> tags/tag2
> tags/tag3/
> tags/subdir/tag4
> tags/subdir/tag5
> 
> The idea is that I want to have git-svn import everything inside subdir
> as tags and everything else inside the root tags directory as tags, so I
> end up with tag1-tag5 in Git. I've got tags= entries like this in the
> Git configuration to try to achieve this:
> 
> tags = tags/subdir/*:refs/remotes/tags/*
> tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*
> 
> My expectation was that everything inside subdir would match the first
> line first and everything else would match the second line, so
> everything would work out OK. Unfortunately it seems like for the tags
> inside subdir, it's matching the second line and therefore trying to
> import everything in there as directories inside one tag called subdir.
> Changing the order of those lines doesn't seem to help either, it seems
> determined to try to match to tags/* regardless of what order the lines
> are in.
> 
> Clearly it would have been better if the repository had not been
> structured this way. However, rearranging it now won't help since the
> paths are like this in the SVN repository history.
> 
> The only solution I've found that kind of works is to use
> tags/{tag1,tag2,tag3} instead of tags/*. Unfortunately there are a ton
> of tags in that directory and adding in a giant list of tags there seems
> to slow down the import process a great deal. Also, there are
> potentially still tags being created in that root directory, so I would
> have to keep regenerating and updating this list in the Git
> configuration every time one was added. So this is not a good solution.
> It would be much easier if I could get a wildcard solution to work here.
> 
> Any thoughts?