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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: Jason Riedy <ejr@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Jason Harrison <jharrison@linuxbs.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svnimport
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:16:22 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90602031916x6cfb9e6bg7dfa0fb1cc237dac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16255.1139021263@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU>

On 2/4/06, Jason Riedy <ejr@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Looking through the git-svnimport source makes it appear
> difficult to just snarf just one directory (maybe /) out
> of a svn repository.  Actually, it makes everything svn-
> related appear difficult.  Why should I worry about
> memory management by default in Perl?!?

I think that the SVN internals are so yucky that we're lucky to get
away with "just" that bit of memory-handling crud.

>  It'd be nice if
> there were an git-svnimport-trivial that just snarfed a
> single URL without tags or branches.

We're definitely needing some updates to the doco for svnimport to
make it easier. Maybe some examples of real life scenarios with
different repo layouts

> I have to deal with a few repos with bizarre directory
> structures...

looks like you're the man for the job ;-)

cheers,


martin

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-04  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-03 19:29 git-svnimport Jason Harrison
2006-02-04  2:47 ` git-svnimport Jason Riedy
2006-02-04  3:16   ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2006-02-04  3:12 ` git-svnimport Martin Langhoff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-20 18:00 git-svnimport Christian Wiese
2007-10-25  9:25 git-svnimport Felipe Balbi
2007-10-25 10:56 ` git-svnimport Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-25 11:08   ` git-svnimport Felipe Balbi
2007-10-25 13:04     ` git-svnimport Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-25 22:20       ` git-svnimport Steven Walter
2007-10-25 22:22         ` git-svnimport Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-26 14:55   ` git-svnimport Gerrit Pape
2007-10-26 16:45     ` git-svnimport Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-26 18:06       ` git-svnimport Steven Grimm
2007-10-26 19:30         ` git-svnimport Junio C Hamano

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