From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:35:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn: cloning an SVN repo with sub-branches and sub-tags
Message-ID: <CALkWK0k7eCTuDdjdABpYrecf7G4_ejcsNmeCxPKSN46406U_2g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F75A571.2020304@pocock.com.au>

Hi again,

Daniel Pocock wrote:
> One other factor I didn't mention in the original email, some of the
> branches have been renamed/moved within the SVN repo - is that a problem for
> git-svn?

Yes, I think so.

> One compromise I have thought about would be just extracting trunk, and
> forgetting about the branches, and manually tagging the official releases
> (as there were very few of them, this is quick)

Just use contrib/svn-fe in that case: it's really quick and
lightweight.  You can then filter-branch the history and pull out
branches by hand.

> However, based on the errors/warnings, is it possible that there is any
> corruption in the gitified version of trunk (or the history of trunk)?

No corruption is possible on the Git side of things- it has
cryptographic hashes for everything.

    Ram