Re: help needed: Splitting a git repository after subversion migration

[Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>]

On Monday, 8. December 2008 15:24:47 you wrote:
> If it's about huge objects, and not just lots of small objects, you can
> use this:

Thanks, those two commands have been really helpful. I've found some objects
that shouldn't be there and now I have two more questions:

1. When I run "git rev-list --all --objects", I can see file names that look 
like "SVN-branchname/directory/filename". Is it normal that "git svn"
creates a directory with the name of the branch and puts files below it?

"git rev-list --all --objects |grep 5-0-3-hotfix":
5fe3265b6941c2fa74c12da799ea23e2801efa8a 5-0-3-hotfix/source
...

The branch in question existed for a limited time in branches/xyz
on the SVN tree and was deleted later on. Guessing the version number
from the filename, it looks like a copy of the files when I started the branch
as it's an old version number before I committed changes to it.
(f.e. upgraded libpng). When I just grep for "libpng" on the whole index,
I see all the various updates I made over the years.

2. Something goes wrong after the filter branch:

Output from the full 11GB tree:
git rev-list --all --objects |grep 5-0-3-hotfix |grep xyz
-> No match

Output from the filtered tree:
git rev-list --all --objects |grep 5-0-3-hotfix |grep xyz

3a13f87bc116aee96e031441eaafc416652ba4bd 5-0-3-hotfix/update_pkg/xyz
ebebb84ccff26c949fb1f803c60034074e6603fe 5-0-3-hotfix/update_pkg/xyz
5529ef51de887cc905fe460e4c4f6cd34b93b5a6 5-0-3-hotfix/update_pkg/xyz
c264a9d5db30ebb131c96c4f93192bfe9a5c0a7b 5-0-3-hotfix/update_pkg/xyz

I have no idea how those objects suddenly appeared there.
It feels like something was stitched together wrongly.

When I converted the SVN tag to a git tag, I tagged the branches
with a "branch-" prefix. Might that be a problem, is "branch-" reserved?

Cheers,
Thomas