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Re: git-svn: --ignore-paths appears to be ignored

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Ddag@cray.com <dag@cray.com>
Date
May 24, 2012, 16:23 UTC
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Ben Tebulin <nntp.20.jexpert@spamgourmet.com> writes:
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> Am 07.05.2012 00:42, schrieb Jon Seymour:
>> I configured ignore-paths as follows:
>>      svn-remote.svn.ignore-paths=^DB.*
>>
>> I expected this would exclude paths of this kind on the initial fetch:
>>      DB/.project
>
> I have the same issue here. I'm failing to import multiple svn
> repository into Git and --ignore-paths provides me no cure.

One thing to be aware of is that --ignore-paths doesn't work across svn branches. I tried to ignore entire branches using it and it didn't work. I had to resort to importing chunks of revisions at a time, skipping the ones that created and merged branches I didn't care about.

                               -Dave
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  1. Jon SeymourMay 6, 2012
  2. Ben TebulinMay 24, 2012
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