Re: git-svn questions: how to clone/init non-standard layout branches/tags?

From: Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date: Nov 3, 2007, 10:56 UTC
Message-ID: <87597D7C-60FB-4CD8-BB27-7E870001A899@lrde.epita.fr>
In-Reply-To: <756D5EE2-FB2C-48DB-8242-14E154E34A9C@vicaya.com>

On Nov 3, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Luke Lu wrote:

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> There are a few svn repositories that use non-standard layout like  
> this:
>
> <path_to_project>/trunk
> <path_to_project>/production
> <path_to_project>/some_branch
>
> production and some_branch are indeed branched from trunk.
>
> 1. How do you init/clone svn repositories like that?

I seem to remember that you can pass more than one `-b' option to git- svn clone, so I'd basically do (untested): git svn clone <url> -T trunk -b production -b some_branch

> 2. Is there a way to add a new svn branch like that (say production  
> or some_branch) to an existing git-svn repository that has trunk  
> cloned?

I don't know, but that'd be great indeed.

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory