git-svnimport -- http/dav authentication notes

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

After a lot of trial and error against a server I don't control (so I
can't log things on) I've managed to use svn-import on it and it
mostly seems to work. Kind of. It's slowly grinding through the
commits.

To make it short, I seem to be doing well with:

   git-svnimport -t tags -T trunk -b branches -o svntrunk -v
         'http://martin%40catalyst.net.nz:password@nameless.server.org/svn/someproject'

The repo has LDAP authentication, and the username is my email
address, so I guessed that url-encoding would work, and it did.

svnimport is a bit of a mistery actually. I often know if it's really
doing the import or the files are going to be there but empty. SVN is
so flexible in its "everything is a directory" way of thinking that if
I mess up -t or -b I get the commits alright... but no files.

Strange world, svn ;-)


martin