From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt•net>
To: Bruno Harbulot <Bruno.Harbulot@manchester•ac.uk>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Efficient cloning from svn (with multiple branches/tags subdirs)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:03:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091014060307.GA17178@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hb2fvu$8qi$1@ger.gmane.org>
Bruno Harbulot <Bruno.Harbulot@manchester•ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to clone an existing subversion repository (Restlet:
> http://restlet.tigris.org/source/browse/). I'm using Git 1.6.5. The
> layout of the project is like this:
> trunk/
> branches/1.0
> branches/1.1
> tags/1.0/1.0b1
> tags/1.0/1.0b2
> ...
> tags/1.0/1.0.1
> ...
> tags/1.1/1.1.0
> tags/1.1/1.1.1
> ...
Hi Bruno,
That looks like there's two levels of tags. You should be able to do
this with your version of git in $GIT_CONFIG:
[svn-remote "svn"]
url = http://restlet.tigris.org/svn/restlet
fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/svn/trunk
branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/svn/*
tags = tags/*/*:refs/remotes/svn/tags/*/*
; note the */* to glob at multiple levels
> Therefore, I've tried to use this (with and without '-T trunk', but
> that's a separate problem):
>
> git init
> git svn init --prefix=svn/ -t tags/1.0 -t tags/1.1 -t tags/1.2 -t
> tags/2.0 -b branches/1.0 -b branches/1.1
> http://restlet.tigris.org/svn/restlet
> git svn fetch
>
>
> This takes a while (I've had to interrupt this) and this creates a
> number of branches such as:
> remotes/svn/tags/1.0b1
> remotes/svn/tags/1.0b2
> remotes/svn/tags/1.0b3
> remotes/svn/tags/1.0b3@1883
> remotes/svn/tags/1.0b3@323
>
>
> What surprises me is that it looks like it's looping over and over,
> since sometimes it starts back from SVN revision 1 when it's trying to
> import a new tag.
Yeah, that's an unfortunate thing about the flexibility of Subversion,
basically anything can be a "tag" or a directory and it's extremely
hard for git svn to support any uncommon cases for tags/branches
out-of-the box, so the manual config editing is needed.
--
Eric Wong
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-14 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 18:13 Efficient cloning from svn (with multiple branches/tags subdirs) Bruno Harbulot
2009-10-14 6:03 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2009-10-14 9:07 ` Bruno Harbulot
2009-10-14 16:28 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-10-14 18:00 ` Eric Wong
2009-10-14 18:26 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-10-15 17:23 ` Bruno Harbulot
2009-10-15 17:29 ` B Smith-Mannschott
2009-10-16 11:20 ` Bruno Harbulot
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