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Re: hot to fix git svn import or just discard 'branches' folder

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MSMarius Seritan <mseritan@decodeideas.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2009, 19:05 UTC
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Thanks Brian,
On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
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> On Feb 4, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Marius Seritan wrote:
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>> I imported over night an svn repository with the command:
>>
>> git svn clone --prefix svn/ -r 860  http://svn.some.com/svn/someproject
>>
>> The svn repository uses the usual trunk, branches, tag so I  
>> (wrongly?) assumed I do not need to pass any command switches  
>> regarding the structure of the repo.
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> "git svn clone URL" attempts to act like "svn co URL", but with  
> history.  If you only want to download the trunk, then you should  
> add "/trunk" to the end of the URL.  If you want to capture all the  
> branches, tags, etc you should use "--stdlayout" (also spelled "-s").

I want to capture the current trunk and any new branches. It seems the -s is required if I do a reimport.

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>> I obviously did something wrong because now I have a git repository  
>> with just one remote branch and it contains the folders trunk,  
>> branches and tag. I do not want to reimport because it is taking  
>> lots of time and bandwidth.
>
> I believe fixing this without reimporting requires using "git filter- 
> branch".  I'm unfamiliar with it, so I can't help you with that part.

Thanks, I will look into it. From the first read this seems to be pretty advanced.

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> However, I'm curious as to why this took a lot of time because the "- 
> r 860" on the command line should tell git-svn to only download a  
> single revision.  Is it a particularly repository?

All of the repository was imported including branches in spite of the - r. This is private repository for a company's web site, it has your usual assortment of jars and the history has a dozen branches and a couple of tags. The size on the disk is about 3GB, I was a bit surprised by it.

Marius
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> ~~ Brian
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