Re: git svn with non-standard svn layout

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Fabian Molder <fm122@arcor.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> - want to use git inside an huge SVN project
>  --> so git-svn could do the job ..
> 
> 
> - I struggle with two things:
>    A) - the SVN project has an non-standard layout
>    B) - want to have (several) git's for just the (few) peaces I work on
> 
> for A)
> ======
> - svn layout looks like this (simplified):
>   - trunk  (not really used, all interesting work in branches)
>   - branches
>     - r1.2
>      - development
>      - integration
>     - r1.3
>      - development
>      - integration
>     ...
> 
> - inside development and integration is:
>        - xapplication1
>        - xapplication2
>        - xapplication3
>        ...
>        - aa
>         -bb
>          -cc
>           - zapplication1
>           - zapplication2
>           - zapplication3
>           ...
> 
> - I created an simplified svn test (from scratch; import/repo/workdir) 
>   via this bash-script:   http://pastebin.ca/1608231
> 
> for B)
> ======
> - the svn repo is very huge, but I'm only interested in these dirs:
>          xapplication2/
>          aa/bb/cc/zapplication1
> - my objectives: 
>    - have several local git's, just the ones I need:
>      --> xapplication2/.git
>      --> aa/bb/cc/zapplication1/.git

Hi Fabian,

Since you don't want to track the entire repo and these seem like
unrelated (history-wise) trees, you probably want the simplest cases:

  git svn clone svn://example.com/path/to/xapplication2
  git svn clone svn://example.com/path/to/aa/bb/cc/xapplication1

These commands are like doing the following with plain old svn:

  svn co svn://example.com/path/to/xapplication2
  svn co svn://example.com/path/to/aa/bb/cc/xapplication1

> I tried to use "git config svn-remote.svn.branches" to do this,
>  please see in function "do_git_svn" in bash-script - but no success

svn-remote.svn.branches and tags are really only for repos with
standard layouts.

-- 
Eric Wong