Re: git-svn: cloning an SVN repo with sub-branches and sub-tags

From: Dave Zarzycki <zarzycki@apple.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2012, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <A3CEE238-4A0F-4335-BC81-BB90885938BF@apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F75A413.409@pocock.com.au>

On Mar 30, 2012, at 5:16 AM, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> wrote:

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> On 29/03/2012 15:40, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
>> You can make this work, but it is very fragile, doesn't scale well, and it only works on recent versions of git. For example, from the LLVM clang project:
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> ...
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>> branches = cfe/branches/Apple/*:refs/remotes/svn/misc/Apple/*
>> branches = cfe/branches/Apple/Necropolis/*:refs/remotes/svn/misc/AppleNecropolis/*
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> In the first line, (Apple/*), can it accidentally think that Necropolis is a branch, when it actually appears to be a directory containing branches?

Correct.

> Or does it consider all the lines in the file together?

It does not. That is why the "ignore-refs" setting is necessary. The "ignore-refs" setting tells git that "Necropolis" etc are not valid branches (because they are SVN subdirectories). The "ignore-refs" setting is useful for working around other SVN user errors too.

davez