git-svn-Cloning repository with complicate nesting

From: Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2009, 08:32 UTC
Message-ID: <9accb4400908270132vaccc4eegb58e2f0ee8de0797@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, this is my first message in the list: this may be a newbie question and my English may not be very good.

I've an SVN repository structured like this:

http://<url>/path/to/repo
    |
  HEAD
    |----- root
    |
  BRANCHES
    |----- V1.0
    |         |----- root
    |
    |----- V1.1
    |         |----- root
    |
    |----- V1.2
    |         |----- root
    |
    |----- DEV
    |         |----- FEATURE1
    |         |            |----- root
    |         |
    |         |----- FEATURE2
    |         |            |----- root
    |         |
    |         |----- FEATURE3
    |                      |----- root
    |
    |----- BUILDS
              |----- BUILD1
              |            |----- root
              |
              |----- BUILD2
              |            |----- root
              |
              |----- BUILD3
                           |----- root

the same for TAGS.

I did this:

git init git svn init <url> vim .git/config

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
[svn-remote "svn"]
	url = <url>
	fetch = <url>/HEAD/root:refs/remotes/trunk
	branches = <url>/BRANCHES/*/root:refs/remotes/branches/*
	branches = <url>/BRANCHES/*/*/root:refs/remotes/devel/*
	tags = <url>/TAGS/*/root:refs/remotes/tags/*

git svn fetch

It is now cloning the repo (it is a really big repo)

It is my configuration ok for the repository structure?

if from another terminal I execute "git branch -r" I get:
  tags/V1.3.0
  tags/V1.3.0@3260
  tags/V1.3.1
  tags/V1.3.1@3359
  tags/V1.3.2
  tags/V1.3.2@4256
  tags/V1.4.0-COMMUNITY-FINAL
  tags/V1.4.0-ENTERPRISE-BETA@4241
  trunk
  trunk@4475

It should have already created some branch but I don't see any...

what are those @XXXX number for some of those branches?

Is the syntax of the svn-remote configuration correct?

with this: branches = <url>/BRANCHES/*/*/root:refs/remotes/devel/* how does git choose the name of the branch? ( refs/remotes/devel/WHAT_GOES_HERE ? )

I would like it to use the tuple */* of the directory

If the syntax of my configuration is not correct, where can I found a documentation about it? I couldn't find one.

Thanks Regards, Daniele