Re: A case for tailor

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 17, 2005, 12:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511171300350.2104@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.11.16.23.40.20.119887@smurf.noris.de>

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

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> Hi, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Possible explanation: at some early stage, the trunk was named "trunk", 
> > but somehow (don´t ask me how, I am a fan of git, not svn) renamed to 
> > "head".
> 
> Well, you *could* use "-T trunk" to import the first part, ^C when it
> starts complaining about 'head', duplicate the last line of .git/svn2git
> (incrementing the SVN change number), and continue with "-T head".
> 
> That hackery sortof depends on Upstream not changing anything *else* while
> renaming 'trunk' to 'head' ...
> 
> Of course, the second possibility is to allow patterns as prefixes, drop
> the distinction of "trunk" and "branch", and store the refs as full
> paths under .git/refs/heads/**. You're welcome to submit a patch; please
> don't forget backwards compatibility for those poor souls who need to do
> incremental imports. ;-)

;-), too.

It is not *that* important for me, as that particular project is linear. It is not even important to convert it to git, but I like to pickaxe the source (why not let the machine do the work for you?).

So I will probably not work on svn->git end any more...

Ciao, Dscho