Re: git-svn-Cloning repository with complex nesting

From: Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 31, 2009, 07:41 UTC
Message-ID: <9accb4400908310041j45d2d1bar9e61348e355892b9@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Daniele Segato<daniele.bilug@gmail.com> wrote:

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

to prove my sentence: the subject should have been "git-svn-Cloning repository with _complex_ nesting" :-)

I received help on IRC (#git) and managed to setup the svn-remote in an acceptable way

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> 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

this is my setting:

git init git svn init svn://svn.mydomain.com/path/to/repo -T HEAD -b BRANCHES -t TAGS

vim .git/config # edited the svn-remote config as follow:
[svn-remote "svn"]
	url = svn://svn.mydomain.com
	fetch = path/to/repo/HEAD/root:refs/remotes/svn/trunk
	branches = path/to/repo/BRANCHES/*/root:refs/remotes/svn/*
	tags = path/to/repo/TAGS/*/root:refs/remotes/svn/tags/*

git svn fetch

it seems to work as expected: only those branches that has a "root" folder got downloaded and fetched.

I still couldn't retrieve the DEV/FEATUREx branches in that way. On IRC they told me I can add another line for branches:

branches = path/to/repo/BRANCHES/*/*/root:refs/remotes/svnbis/*

but I haven't been successful on this. They told me that I can add multiple branches lines only on newer versions of git. Probably that's the reason for that. I have git version 1.5.6.5.

It is not a big deal: I can live without those branches even if I'll like to have them too.

I have another problem now on that SVN repo but I'll open another topic about that because it is not related.

Regards, Daniele