Re: Getting correct tree layout when importing svn repo into git

From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2008, 12:57 UTC
Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0809170557n2aa6c290j69dafd412c92cc64@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080917110510.GB13144@atjola.homenet>

Hi Björn,

D'oh -- the fix was from you too ;-).  See below.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On 2008.09.17 03:38:12 -0700, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> $ svn list file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/tags
>> man-pages-2.00
>> man-pages-2.01
>> man-pages-2.02
>> man-pages-2.03
>> ...
>> $ svn list file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/tags/man-pages-2.00
>> man-pages
>> $ svn list file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/tags/man-pages-2.01
>> man-pages
>> [and so on]
>> $ svn list file:///home/mtk/man-pages-rep/branches
>> $
>> (i.e., no branches, since this has been a linear svn repo.)
>
> That means that you also need to pass the "man-pages" suffix for the
> tags and branches.
>
> git svn clone file:///path/to/repo \
>        -T trunk/man-pages \
>        -b branches/*/man-pages \
>        -t tags/*/man-pages
>
> Might require a more recent git-svn version, not sure about that.

Using my current git version, this seems to produce the right result. Thank you! (I guess Michael's solution is essentially equivalent, but I tried yours first.)

Thanks everyone!

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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