Subject: Re: git-svn with non-standard repository layout

From: Stephen Bash <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:44:40 -0500 (EST)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Piotr Krukowiecki" <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:26:54 AM
> Subject: Re: git-svn with non-standard repository layout
> 
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Carsten Fuchs
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Hi Piotr,
> >
> > Am 2012-12-04 18:29, schrieb Piotr Krukowiecki:
> >
> >> Is there a way to handle svn repository with following layout?
> >>
> >> repo/trunk
> >> repo/branches/branch1
> >> repo/branches/branch2
> >> repo/branches/work/developer1/branch3
> >> repo/branches/work/developer1/branch4
> >> repo/branches/work/developer2/branch5
> >
> > see my post at
> >     http://www.cafu.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1092
> > heading "Branches outside branches/".
> >
> > You may need something like
> >     git config --add svn-remote.svn.fetch
> > "path.../branchX:refs/remotes/branchX"
> > for each of your branches.
> 
> that works :)
> 
> Although not an ideal solution - I have to manually configure all
> branches + update them as they are created

It's not a 100% solution, but you can use a limited glob-like syntax in the branches and tags lines of the svn-remote config block.  You still need to do some manual work (one entry for each developer), but the wildcards eliminate a lot of the grunt work as individual branches are created.  See the very end of the git-svn manpage for examples (section titled CONFIGURATION).  I use that technique to track a subdirectory of the Slimdevices SVN repo [1], which has a similarly complex layout:

repo/7.1/trunk
repo/7.1/branches/branchA
repo/7.1/branches/branchB
repo/7.1/tags/tag1
repo/7.2/trunk
repo/7.2/branches/branchC
...

HTH,
Stephen