git-svnimport -- http/dav authentication notes

Martin Langhoff· Feb 20, 2006, 07:24 UTC · lore

After a lot of trial and error against a server I don't control (so I can't log things on) I've managed to use svn-import on it and it mostly seems to work. Kind of. It's slowly grinding through the commits.

To make it short, I seem to be doing well with:

   git-svnimport -t tags -T trunk -b branches -o svntrunk -v
         'http://martin%40catalyst.net.nz:password@nameless.server.org/svn/someproject'

The repo has LDAP authentication, and the username is my email address, so I guessed that url-encoding would work, and it did.

svnimport is a bit of a mistery actually. I often know if it's really doing the import or the files are going to be there but empty. SVN is so flexible in its "everything is a directory" way of thinking that if I mess up -t or -b I get the commits alright... but no files.

Strange world, svn ;-)

martin

Eric Wong· Feb 20, 2006, 19:22 UTC · re: Martin Langhoff · lore

Re: git-svnimport -- http/dav authentication notes

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:

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> After a lot of trial and error against a server I don't control (so I
> can't log things on) I've managed to use svn-import on it and it
> mostly seems to work. Kind of. It's slowly grinding through the
> commits.
> 
> To make it short, I seem to be doing well with:
> 
>    git-svnimport -t tags -T trunk -b branches -o svntrunk -v
>          'http://martin%40catalyst.net.nz:password@nameless.server.org/svn/someproject'
> 
> The repo has LDAP authentication, and the username is my email
> address, so I guessed that url-encoding would work, and it did.

Logging in with the svn command-line client (svn ls <url>) be enough to cache auth information for the SVN library (and therefore svnimport)? Unless you've disabled it in your config, of course...

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> svnimport is a bit of a mistery actually. I often know if it's really
> doing the import or the files are going to be there but empty. SVN is
> so flexible in its "everything is a directory" way of thinking that if
> I mess up -t or -b I get the commits alright... but no files.
> 
> Strange world, svn ;-)

Hear, hear. I always had to reread the manpage or look here for examples on how to use it. And then echo !! > .git/info/svnimport-cmd after I was done using it so I wouldn't have to remember which command switches I used.

Then I decided to write git-svn :>

-- 
Eric Wong