From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:18:48 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn sucks when it should not
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807071818250.18205@racer>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130807070929q65e9a0d8g788cdb8c28ef28b9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> On 7/7/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >  # It heavily relies on curl being able to screen-scrape the 
> >  # directories, in other words, it wants an HTTP on the other side 
> >  # that has directory listings enabled.
> 
> I wrote a similar script myself, although it makes assumptions about the 
> meaning of /branches and /tags rather than using the dirs vs. files 
> trick.
> 
> Rather than relying on screen scraping with curl, you might prefer to 
> use "svn ls" instead, since it'll work with any svn-compatible 
> repository type and (I presume) doesn't require special web server 
> settings.

Good to know!  At least if you want to use svn more often ;-)

Thanks,
Dscho