# git-svn clone duplicates content

3 messages from 2008-03-13 to 2008-03-13. Participants: martin f krafft, Björn Steinbrink.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12666

## martin f krafft, 2008-03-13 09:52

Subject: git-svn clone duplicates content
Message-ID: <20080313095215.GA22241@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080313095215.GA22241%40piper.oerlikon.madduck.net

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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?

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## Björn Steinbrink, 2008-03-13 11:30

Subject: Re: git-svn clone duplicates content
Message-ID: <20080313113013.GA31522@atjola.homenet>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080313113013.GA31522%40atjola.homenet
In-Reply-To: <20080313095215.GA22241@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

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

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.

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## martin f krafft, 2008-03-13 11:36

Subject: Re: git-svn clone duplicates content
Message-ID: <20080313113621.GA13221@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080313113621.GA13221%40piper.oerlikon.madduck.net
In-Reply-To: <20080313113013.GA31522@atjola.homenet>

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

That makes sense.

> 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.
> ;-)

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

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 you shout and no one seems to hear
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