# Importing a strange svn repo layout w/ git-svn 3 messages from 2008-04-30 to 2008-04-30. Participants: Asheesh Laroia, Paolo Bonzini. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13325 ## Asheesh Laroia, 2008-04-30 04:20 Subject: Importing a strange svn repo layout w/ git-svn Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.00.0804300011390.29172%40rose.makesad.us ``` I'm working on cloning the MediaWiki (a common wiki engine, used to power e.g. wikipedia.org) Subversion tree using git-svn. It has this peculiar layout: $BASE/trunk/phase3 is the project trunk $BASE/tags/TAG_NAME/phase3 is the tag TAG_NAME $BASE/branches/BRANCH_NAME/phase3 is the branch BRANCH_NAME "phase3" is not the only directory in e.g. http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_12/ - there is also an "extensions" directory, a snapshot of MediaWiki extensions for that branch. But those are truly separate projects with separate contributors, and have to be installed in a separate place. When cloning other svn repositories, I saw that strange layouts can be accommodated by just cloning the trunk. But in this case, I considered using git-svn like this: $ git svn http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/ -t tags/phase3/ -b branches/phase3/ -T trunk/phase3/ But that wouldn't be correct, since it wouldn't actually pick up the tag or branch names! Is there a way to get git-svn to handle this situation? Perhaps git-svn has a "suffix $DIR to the repository URL" option that I missed. If not, is it conceivable it could? -- Asheesh. -- Beauty? What's that? -- Larry Wall in <199710221937.MAA25131@wall.org> ``` ## Paolo Bonzini, 2008-04-30 05:50 Subject: Re: Importing a strange svn repo layout w/ git-svn Message-ID: <481808A7.6080908@gnu.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/481808A7.6080908%40gnu.org In-Reply-To: ``` > Is there a way to get git-svn to handle this situation? Perhaps git-svn > has a "suffix $DIR to the repository URL" option that I missed. If not, > is it conceivable it could? See the CONFIGURATION section of git-svn(1). Paolo ``` ## Asheesh Laroia, 2008-04-30 06:44 Subject: Re: Importing a strange svn repo layout w/ git-svn Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.00.0804292325580.2603%40alchemy.localdomain In-Reply-To: <481808A7.6080908@gnu.org> ``` On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> Is there a way to get git-svn to handle this situation? Perhaps git-svn >> has a "suffix $DIR to the repository URL" option that I missed. If not, is >> it conceivable it could? > > See the CONFIGURATION section of git-svn(1). Oops, thanks! I read through the command-line options of the man page, but not all the way down to the CONFIGURATION where this is in fact clearly discussed. That solved my issue! -- Asheesh. -- There's nothing very mysterious about you, except that nobody really knows your origin, purpose, or destination. ```