# git svn clone with funky tags layout 3 messages from 2013-11-05 to 2013-11-06. Participants: Jim Garrison, Michael J Gruber. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/35284 ## Jim Garrison, 2013-11-05 17:16 Subject: git svn clone with funky tags layout Message-ID: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E273041FD78E9@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E273041FD78E9%40S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET ``` I'm doing a one-time migration of an svn project. For historical reasons our repo layout is weird: trunk/reporting/reporting_app tags/something_else .... tags/reporting_app-2.3.45 tags/reporting_app-2.4.46 tags/reporting_app-2.4.0 tags/reporting_app-2.4.1 .... tags/more_stuff I want to migrate the trunk plus only the 2.4.* tags. I tried giving a wildcard in the config [svn-remote "svn"] noMetadata = 1 url = http://subversion.tld.com/svn/DevJava fetch = trunk/Reporting/reporting_app:refs/remotes/trunk tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.*:refs/remotes/tags/* but this does not work: Invalid pattern in 'tags/reporting_app-2.4.*': reporting_app-2.4.* On the off chance that it might work I also tried tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.*:refs/remotes/tags/reporting_app-2.4.* but that produces the same error message. Is there a way to accomplish this or should I just move the tags I want to import into a separate directory in subversion first? I'd rather not disturb svn but can do that if it's the only way. ``` ## Michael J Gruber, 2013-11-06 14:02 Subject: Re: git svn clone with funky tags layout Message-ID: <527A4C0C.7090400@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/527A4C0C.7090400%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E273041FD78E9@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> ``` Jim Garrison venit, vidit, dixit 05.11.2013 18:16: > I'm doing a one-time migration of an svn project. For historical reasons our repo layout is weird: > > trunk/reporting/reporting_app > > tags/something_else > .... > tags/reporting_app-2.3.45 > tags/reporting_app-2.4.46 > tags/reporting_app-2.4.0 > tags/reporting_app-2.4.1 > .... > tags/more_stuff > > I want to migrate the trunk plus only the 2.4.* tags. I tried giving a wildcard in the config > > [svn-remote "svn"] > noMetadata = 1 > url = http://subversion.tld.com/svn/DevJava > fetch = trunk/Reporting/reporting_app:refs/remotes/trunk > tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.*:refs/remotes/tags/* > > but this does not work: > > Invalid pattern in 'tags/reporting_app-2.4.*': reporting_app-2.4.* > > On the off chance that it might work I also tried > > tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.*:refs/remotes/tags/reporting_app-2.4.* > > but that produces the same error message. > > Is there a way to accomplish this or should I just move the tags I want to import into a separate directory in subversion first? I'd rather not disturb svn but can do that if it's the only way. > Depending on whether there are more tags to skip or more to include, you can A) use the standard refspec (--tags=tags/) and remove the superfluous tag branches once git-svn is finished or B) use multiple tag refspecs without wildcard: tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.0:refs/remotes/tags/2.4.0 tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.1:refs/remotes/tags/2.4.1 I may have mixed up A and B ;) Michael ``` ## Jim Garrison, 2013-11-06 17:05 Subject: RE: git svn clone with funky tags layout Message-ID: <0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E273041FD80AD@S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/0C723FEB5B4E5642B25B451BA57E273041FD80AD%40S1P5DAG3C.EXCHPROD.USA.NET In-Reply-To: <527A4C0C.7090400@drmicha.warpmail.net> ``` > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael J Gruber [mailto:git@drmicha.warpmail.net] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:03 AM > To: Jim Garrison; git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: git svn clone with funky tags layout > > Jim Garrison venit, vidit, dixit 05.11.2013 18:16: > > I'm doing a one-time migration of an svn project. For historical reasons > our repo layout is weird: > > > > trunk/reporting/reporting_app > > > > tags/something_else > > .... > > tags/reporting_app-2.3.45 > > tags/reporting_app-2.4.46 > > tags/reporting_app-2.4.0 > > tags/reporting_app-2.4.1 > > .... > > tags/more_stuff > > > > I want to migrate the trunk plus only the 2.4.* tags. I tried giving > > a wildcard in the config > > > > [svn-remote "svn"] > > noMetadata = 1 > > url = http://subversion.tld.com/svn/DevJava > > fetch = trunk/Reporting/reporting_app:refs/remotes/trunk > > tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.*:refs/remotes/tags/* > > > > but this does not work: > > > > Invalid pattern in 'tags/reporting_app-2.4.*': reporting_app-2.4.* > > > > On the off chance that it might work I also tried > > > > tags = > > tags/reporting_app-2.4.*:refs/remotes/tags/reporting_app-2.4.* > > > > but that produces the same error message. > > > > Is there a way to accomplish this or should I just move the tags I want to > import into a separate directory in subversion first? I'd rather not disturb > svn but can do that if it's the only way. > > > > Depending on whether there are more tags to skip or more to include, you > can > > A) use the standard refspec (--tags=tags/) and remove the superfluous tag > branches once git-svn is finished or > > B) use multiple tag refspecs without wildcard: > > tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.0:refs/remotes/tags/2.4.0 > tags = tags/reporting_app-2.4.1:refs/remotes/tags/2.4.1 > > I may have mixed up A and B ;) Thanks for the response. Since there was a lot of reorganization to be done I decided to just copy all the disparate directories into a new correctly structured tree in svn first, and import from there. Worked great. ```