git-svn clone duplicates content

Hi list,

if I

  git-svn clone --stdlayout svn://svn.debian.org/svn/python-modules/packages/python-docutils

then I get

  drwx------ 3 madduck madduck 4096 2008-03-13 10:11 debian/
  drwx------ 3 madduck madduck 4096 2008-03-13 10:11 trunk/
  drwx------ 3 madduck madduck 4096 2008-03-13 10:11 trunk/debian/

and the diff between the two debian directories is equivalent to the last commit to the trunk. If I create a new branch off the remote 'trunk' branch, then the trunk/ directory will be gone, as it should.

I am a bit wary to dcommit off anything else than master though for I've already killed SVN repos with git-svn in the past. I'd rather not to that to Debian's python-modules repo, or else would have to spend the rest of my life hidden on some island.

It seems that master is branched off a tag in this case. Does anyone have an idea what's going on? Is this something weird in the svn or with git-svn?

On 2008.03.13 10:52:15 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:

The "fetch" part of git-svn will create a master branch if it doesn't exist(*) and makes it point to whatever branch was last fetched. In your case, it seems that the last change on the svn side was to create tag 0.4-5, so master pointed to that one.

As things are, a "git reset --hard remotes/trunk" (or wherever you want your master to descend from) is pretty mandatory after git svn clone. The example in the man page "kind of" mentions that. ;-)

Björn

(*) Which can be a bit "surprising", because even if you don't want a
    master branch and deleted the original one, the next fetch will
    create a new one.

also sprach Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> [2008.03.13.1230 +0100]:

That makes sense.

I saw that a bit later too. Thanks for the explanation regardless!