# Stopping git-svn pulling a particular branch 2 messages from 2012-09-28 to 2012-09-28. Participants: Jon Seymour. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31669 ## Jon Seymour, 2012-09-28 04:58 Subject: Stopping git-svn pulling a particular branch Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAH3Anro6EOq0Qh6R6-YXpMW%2B9h0xtZcBR3KY0kRgWT-4mGf1xg%40mail.gmail.com ``` G'day An svn developer created a branch from a subdirectory of the trunk rather than by copying trunk itself. I want to avoid pulling this branch into my git repo with git svn fetch because the re-rooting pulls in too much history and content that I don't want. Is there any easy way to achieve this? I tried used the --ignore-paths option, but this doesn't seem suited to the purpose. I can delete the SVN branch if that will help, but past experience suggests that it won't. jon. ``` ## Jon Seymour, 2012-09-28 11:03 Subject: Re: Stopping git-svn pulling a particular branch Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAH3AnroU4gpf38qTAz87%3DjbcXCg3Zq_bDk%3D3BozGgyOGz5HREg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jon Seymour wrote: > G'day > > An svn developer created a branch from a subdirectory of the trunk > rather than by copying trunk itself. > > I want to avoid pulling this branch into my git repo with git svn > fetch because the re-rooting pulls in too much history and content > that I don't want. > > Is there any easy way to achieve this? I tried used the --ignore-paths > option, but this doesn't seem suited to the purpose. > > I can delete the SVN branch if that will help, but past experience > suggests that it won't. > Answering my own question. There is an undocumented option to git-svn --ignore-refs which can be used to achieve this. I found that I had to manually delete the directories corresponding to the bogus branches from .git/svn/refs/remotes, then re-run git svn fetch with the --ignore-refs option set to a regex that matched the bogus branches. This allowed me to fetch everything else I needed to fetch and advanced the maxRevs metadata in .git/svn/.metadata past the problematic branches so that subsequent svn fetch calls avoided the attempts to fetch the bogus branches. I'll draft a documentation patch when I get a chance... jon. ```