Re: git svn fetches the same revision multiple times for non-trunk branches

From: Robert Zeh <robert.a.zeh@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2009, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <E9365F62-FD6F-4770-B177-9B8F0413C12C@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090725105111.GB13534@dcvr.yhbt.net>

So is the basic problem that the history of the branch is unknown and we have to retrieve the history?

Robert On Jul 25, 2009, at 5:51 AM, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Robert Zeh <robert.a.zeh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am seeing git svn fetch repeatedly retrieve the same Subversion
>> revisions when it finds branches in our Subversion repository. We are
>> using the standard Subversion repository layout, with top level / 
>> trunk,
>> /tags, and /branches directories (and the git repository was  
>> created with
>> 'git svn init -s'). However, the problematic branches are often  
>> copies
>> made from a subdirectory inside of trunk, instead of trunk.
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Yes, this is a known problem with some repositories and there's no
> automatic/easy[1] way to handle it with globbing tags/* or branches/*.
>
> You can try to track each tagged project independently or to setup
> individual fetche lines (like the one generated for trunk).  in
> .git/config for each tag/branch.
>
> [1] - Unfortunately SVN allows way too much freedom and thus ambiguity
> in how it treats tags/branches and that doesn't allow mapping those
> things to git very easily.
>
> -- 
> Eric Wong