Re: git-svn of both trunk and tags while having no access to the 'parent' of those

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> > git svn clone --no-minimize-url --prefix=upstream-svn/ -T trunk -t releases  http://domain.com/svnrepo/trunk svnrepo.gitsvn
> Is the trunk really at svnrepo/trunk/trunk?
nope... it is just svnrepo/trunk but if I set url to point to parent --
git svn seeks authentication right away

> I would try both
> git svn clone --no-minimize-url --prefix=upstream-svn/ -T trunk -t
> releases  http://domain.com/svnrepo/ svnrepo.gitsvn

asks for authentication since there is no public access to
http://domain.com/svnrepo/

> and also the seemingly equivalent

> git svn clone --no-minimize-url --prefix=upstream-svn/ -T
> http://domain.com/svnrepo/trunk -t http://domain.com/svnrepo/releases
> svnrepo.gitsvn
seems to not work since it wants url as a parameter 

Bad URL passed to RA layer: Illegal repository URL svnrepo.gitsvn  at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 940

> Also, I assume you can svn list http://domain.com/svnrepo/trunk and
> http://domain.com/svnrepo/releases ;)
yeap -- I can list both of those but not their parent.


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