Re: git svn with non-standard svn layout

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Fabian Molder <fm122@arcor.de> wrote:
> Eric Wong <normalperson <at> yhbt.net> writes:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Hello Eric,
>   hmm, understand,
>   but this just does an checkout to the working dir
> 
>   the reason for using git is:
>     - work offline, with (at least read) access to all the svn branches
>     - have some more (privat, not commit back to svn) branches for experiments
>     - all the nice git stuff ..

Sorry, not sure if I understood you the first time.  The pastie was
hard to read on my screen (big fonts, low res).

I think what you need is to match the number of globs (*) on
both the remote and local sides:

  REMOTE=branches/*/*/aa/bb/cc/zapplication1
  LOCAL=refs/remotes/svn/aa/bb/cc/zapplication1/*/*
  git config svn-remote.svn.branches "${REMOTE}:${LOCAL}"

  #---> matches all in svn repo and also creates subdirs
#
#  git config svn-remote.svn.branches \
#  "branches/r*/development/aa/bb/cc/zapplication1:refs/remotes/svn/branches/*"
#
  #--> Missing trailing '/' on left side of: 'branches/r*/development/aa/bb/cc/zapplication1' (branches/r)

The glob code is still a bit wonky, but it needs to be "/*/" (that is
"*" must have a "/" or nothing, but not "/r*/"

But it looks like the example with 2 globs works.

-- 
Eric Wong