How to use git-svnimport without trunk, tags and branches?

Hi,

I have searched the archive but did not found any hint for my problem. Perhaps I did not have the right search pattern, but see yourself:

The most important thing prior of using git was to import my subversion repositories. It seems to be quite easy if the SVN-repositories are of common structure using the trunk, tags and branches structure.

But times ago I have had the idea of not using the traditional structure of subversion for some of my repositories but using the repository directly as single directory - no trunk, no tags, no branches. That was because I thought only a geek would have the "complicated" way for only a few files without any need for tags and branches. And now the git-svnimport does not seem to be able to handle a SVN-repos structure like mine:

~/svnrepos/
      |------- projectA
                  |---- foo.cpp
                  |---- foo.h

I want to import projectA into git _with_ the commit-history (there are of course no tags and no branches). Is there a way to do that with git-svnimport? Or do I have to throw away all the details, checkout projectA and reimport it as initial version with git?

Any hints are warmly appreciated.

Ciao, Georg

On 2007-03-11 12:38:31 +0100, Georg Lohrer wrote:

You could try something like this:

  trunk: svnrepos/projectA
  tags: svnrepos/dummytags
  branches: svnrepos/dummybranches

I haven't tested, but I think that kind of maneouver should work.

Hi Karl,

Karl Hasselström schrieb:
  > You could try something like this:

yes, that does the trick. I use:

$ cd ~/tmp/git-test $ tar xvfj fooRepos.tar.bz2 $ mv fooRepos foorRepos.svnrepos $ svn mkdir file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/fooRepos.svnrepos/dummytags $ svn mkdir file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/foorRepos.svnrepos/dummybranches $ mkdir fooRepos.git; cd fooRepos.git $ git-svnimport -b dummybranches -t dummytags -T projectA file:///home/georg/tmp/git-test/fooRepos.svnrepos

Unfortunately there was a bunch of directories instead of a single projectA-directory. Do I have to repeat the above mentioned sequence for every directory (projectA, projectB, ...) or is there a simple way of git-svnimport'ing into an existing git-repository?

Nevertheless, if that is not possible, I could extract with your way the desired directories separately and keep the histories intact.

Regards, Georg

On 2007-03-11 17:57:13 +0100, Georg Lohrer wrote:

Did you try importing without creating the dummy* directories? I think it may work even if they don't exist.

You could try this:

  trunk: dummy
  tags: dummy
  branches: svnrepos

That should turn svnrepos/projectA into the branch projectA, svnrepos/projectB into the branch projectB, and so on.

Zitat von Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>:

No, it does not do that. Instead I got a huge amount of errors as with giving no details at all (passing only the non-standard svn-repository).

But, I fixed the way around now, by scrutinizing through the history and looking for essential parts. I checkedout the specific versions seperately and rebuild the history by cg-add'ing the file-versions one after the other. The hard way, but there were not many really important files.

So, thank you a lot for passing me your help.

Ciao, Georg