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From: <dag@cray•com>
To: Ben Tebulin <nntp.20.jexpert@spamgourmet•com>
Cc: <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-svn: --ignore-paths appears to be ignored
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 11:23:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nngsjepwnsn.fsf@transit.us.cray.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jpl70m$r97$1@dough.gmane.org> (Ben Tebulin's message of "Thu, 24 May 2012 13:45:33 +0200")

Ben Tebulin <nntp.20.jexpert@spamgourmet•com> writes:

> Am 07.05.2012 00:42, schrieb Jon Seymour:
>> I configured ignore-paths as follows:
>>      svn-remote.svn.ignore-paths=^DB.*
>>
>> I expected this would exclude paths of this kind on the initial fetch:
>>      DB/.project
>
> I have the same issue here. I'm failing to import multiple svn
> repository into Git and --ignore-paths provides me no cure.

One thing to be aware of is that --ignore-paths doesn't work across svn
branches.  I tried to ignore entire branches using it and it didn't
work.  I had to resort to importing chunks of revisions at a time,
skipping the ones that created and merged branches I didn't care about.

                               -Dave

      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-24 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-06 22:42 git-svn: --ignore-paths appears to be ignored Jon Seymour
2012-05-24 11:45 ` Ben Tebulin
2012-05-24 16:23   ` dag [this message]

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