Subject: Re: how to skip branches on git svn clone/fetch when there are errors

From: Daniele Segato <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:55:04 +0200

Il giorno ven, 04/09/2009 alle 23.16 -0700, Eric Wong ha scritto:
> It's unfortunate, but there's not yet an exclude/ignore directive
> when globbing.  You'll have to change your $GIT_CONFIG to only
> have a list of branches you want, something like this:
> 
> [svn-remote "svn"]
> 	url = svn://svn.mydomain.com
> 	fetch = path/to/repo/HEAD/root:refs/remotes/svn/trunk
> 
> 	; have one "fetch" line for every branch except the one you want
> 	fetch = path/to/repo/BRANCHES/a/root:refs/remotes/svn/a
> 	fetch = path/to/repo/BRANCHES/b/root:refs/remotes/svn/b
> 	fetch = path/to/repo/BRANCHES/c/root:refs/remotes/svn/c
> 
> 	; you can do the same for tags if you have the same problem
> 	tags = path/to/repo/TAGS/*/root:refs/remotes/svn/tags/*
> 
> But you shouldn't have to worry about having "fetch" entries for
> stale/old branches/tags you've already imported.

I see...
That means that then I'll have to manually add new created branches,
right?

well... I tried to avoid this kind of configuration for weeks :) but
that's probably my best way with that repo....

thank you,
Daniele