From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: git-svnimport Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:16:22 +1300 Message-ID: <46a038f90602031916x6cfb9e6bg7dfa0fb1cc237dac@mail.gmail.com> References: <200602031429.07894.jharrison@linuxbs.org> <16255.1139021263@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Jason Harrison , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 04 04:16:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5DuU-0008Tg-MM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 04:16:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946291AbWBDDQY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:16:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946294AbWBDDQY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:16:24 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.203]:60724 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946291AbWBDDQY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:16:24 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i34so712357wra for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:16:23 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Tmx083iUIR7HC5VSd1qcB5L6EZH2SHke80B6YOEQqWTQhXJUTWdJWT1TVbYiUHW+2dtv21rYlVrVOVUO7uIKkd6+05bZqZv9t/2IDKjVWauh4v9hskD4xxsahCAiRRP1yH9y7SzjjoR7x0fX6VKvHtmcEwcsQdeJ3lQU8/cqCyg= Received: by 10.54.76.1 with SMTP id y1mr1228196wra; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:15:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.71.7 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 19:16:22 -0800 (PST) To: Jason Riedy In-Reply-To: <16255.1139021263@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2/4/06, Jason Riedy 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