# git svn with non-standard svn layout 4 messages from 2009-10-09 to 2009-10-14. Participants: Fabian Molder, Eric Wong. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21181 ## Fabian Molder, 2009-10-09 22:24 Subject: git svn with non-standard svn layout Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20091010T001433-536%40post.gmane.org ``` Hello, - want to use git inside an huge SVN project --> so git-svn could do the job .. - I struggle with two things: A) - the SVN project has an non-standard layout B) - want to have (several) git's for just the (few) peaces I work on for A) ====== - svn layout looks like this (simplified): - trunk (not really used, all interesting work in branches) - branches - r1.2 - development - integration - r1.3 - development - integration ... - inside development and integration is: - xapplication1 - xapplication2 - xapplication3 ... - aa -bb -cc - zapplication1 - zapplication2 - zapplication3 ... - I created an simplified svn test (from scratch; import/repo/workdir) via this bash-script: http://pastebin.ca/1608231 for B) ====== - the svn repo is very huge, but I'm only interested in these dirs: xapplication2/ aa/bb/cc/zapplication1 - my objectives: - have several local git's, just the ones I need: --> xapplication2/.git --> aa/bb/cc/zapplication1/.git I tried to use "git config svn-remote.svn.branches" to do this, please see in function "do_git_svn" in bash-script - but no success any hints appreciated regards, Fabian ``` ## Eric Wong, 2009-10-11 07:09 Subject: Re: git svn with non-standard svn layout Message-ID: <20091011070937.GC16264@dcvr.yhbt.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20091011070937.GC16264%40dcvr.yhbt.net In-Reply-To: ``` Fabian Molder wrote: > Hello, > > - want to use git inside an huge SVN project > --> so git-svn could do the job .. > > > - I struggle with two things: > A) - the SVN project has an non-standard layout > B) - want to have (several) git's for just the (few) peaces I work on > > for A) > ====== > - svn layout looks like this (simplified): > - trunk (not really used, all interesting work in branches) > - branches > - r1.2 > - development > - integration > - r1.3 > - development > - integration > ... > > - inside development and integration is: > - xapplication1 > - xapplication2 > - xapplication3 > ... > - aa > -bb > -cc > - zapplication1 > - zapplication2 > - zapplication3 > ... > > - I created an simplified svn test (from scratch; import/repo/workdir) > via this bash-script: http://pastebin.ca/1608231 > > for B) > ====== > - the svn repo is very huge, but I'm only interested in these dirs: > xapplication2/ > aa/bb/cc/zapplication1 > - my objectives: > - have several local git's, just the ones I need: > --> xapplication2/.git > --> aa/bb/cc/zapplication1/.git Hi Fabian, Since you don't want to track the entire repo and these seem like unrelated (history-wise) trees, you probably want the simplest cases: git svn clone svn://example.com/path/to/xapplication2 git svn clone svn://example.com/path/to/aa/bb/cc/xapplication1 These commands are like doing the following with plain old svn: svn co svn://example.com/path/to/xapplication2 svn co svn://example.com/path/to/aa/bb/cc/xapplication1 > I tried to use "git config svn-remote.svn.branches" to do this, > please see in function "do_git_svn" in bash-script - but no success svn-remote.svn.branches and tags are really only for repos with standard layouts. -- Eric Wong ``` ## Fabian Molder, 2009-10-11 19:00 Subject: Re: git svn with non-standard svn layout Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20091011T205226-197%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <20091011070937.GC16264@dcvr.yhbt.net> ``` Eric Wong yhbt.net> writes: ... > > Hi Fabian, > > Since you don't want to track the entire repo and these seem like > unrelated (history-wise) trees, you probably want the simplest cases: > > git svn clone svn://example.com/path/to/xapplication2 > git svn clone svn://example.com/path/to/aa/bb/cc/xapplication1 > > These commands are like doing the following with plain old svn: > > svn co svn://example.com/path/to/xapplication2 > svn co svn://example.com/path/to/aa/bb/cc/xapplication1 > > > I tried to use "git config svn-remote.svn.branches" to do this, > > please see in function "do_git_svn" in bash-script - but no success > > svn-remote.svn.branches and tags are really only for repos with > standard layouts. > Hello Eric, hmm, understand, but this just does an checkout to the working dir the reason for using git is: - work offline, with (at least read) access to all the svn branches - have some more (privat, not commit back to svn) branches for experiments - all the nice git stuff .. regards, Fabian ``` ## Eric Wong, 2009-10-14 06:33 Subject: Re: git svn with non-standard svn layout Message-ID: <20091014063350.GB17178@dcvr.yhbt.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20091014063350.GB17178%40dcvr.yhbt.net In-Reply-To: ``` Fabian Molder wrote: > Eric Wong yhbt.net> writes: > > Hi Fabian, > > > > Since you don't want to track the entire repo and these seem like > > unrelated (history-wise) trees, you probably want the simplest cases: > > > > git svn clone svn://example.com/path/to/xapplication2 > > git svn clone svn://example.com/path/to/aa/bb/cc/xapplication1 > > > > These commands are like doing the following with plain old svn: > > > > svn co svn://example.com/path/to/xapplication2 > > svn co svn://example.com/path/to/aa/bb/cc/xapplication1 > > > > > I tried to use "git config svn-remote.svn.branches" to do this, > > > please see in function "do_git_svn" in bash-script - but no success > > > > svn-remote.svn.branches and tags are really only for repos with > > standard layouts. > > > > Hello Eric, > hmm, understand, > but this just does an checkout to the working dir > > the reason for using git is: > - work offline, with (at least read) access to all the svn branches > - have some more (privat, not commit back to svn) branches for experiments > - all the nice git stuff .. Sorry, not sure if I understood you the first time. The pastie was hard to read on my screen (big fonts, low res). I think what you need is to match the number of globs (*) on both the remote and local sides: REMOTE=branches/*/*/aa/bb/cc/zapplication1 LOCAL=refs/remotes/svn/aa/bb/cc/zapplication1/*/* git config svn-remote.svn.branches "${REMOTE}:${LOCAL}" #---> matches all in svn repo and also creates subdirs # # git config svn-remote.svn.branches \ # "branches/r*/development/aa/bb/cc/zapplication1:refs/remotes/svn/branches/*" # #--> Missing trailing '/' on left side of: 'branches/r*/development/aa/bb/cc/zapplication1' (branches/r) The glob code is still a bit wonky, but it needs to be "/*/" (that is "*" must have a "/" or nothing, but not "/r*/" But it looks like the example with 2 globs works. -- Eric Wong ```