From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Branchaud Subject: Re: git svn: Supporting multiple branch subdirs? Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:25:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4A390AFE.5070703@xiplink.com> References: <4A32CCA5.7040404@xiplink.com> <4A339182.1090204@drmicha.warpmail.net> <4A368509.9070801@xiplink.com> <4A38FCEE.2020002@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git list , normalperson@yhbt.net To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 17 17:26:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MGx1b-0003Vy-53 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:26:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752483AbZFQPZ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:25:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752193AbZFQPZ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:25:57 -0400 Received: from smtp182.dfw.emailsrvr.com ([67.192.241.182]:48827 "EHLO smtp182.dfw.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752048AbZFQPZ4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:25:56 -0400 Received: from relay8.relay.dfw.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay8.relay.dfw.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 7079D40457 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:25:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by relay8.relay.dfw.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: mbranchaud-AT-xiplink.com) with ESMTPSA id F1EA840021; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:25:54 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) In-Reply-To: <4A38FCEE.2020002@drmicha.warpmail.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael J Gruber wrote: > >> (Shouldn't that fetch line be head:refs/remots/head, since there's nothing called >> "trunk" in the svn repo? I used git-svn init --trunk=head ...) > > The left hand side of the refspec refers to the svn repo, the right hand > side only names your local ref. Feel free to put "head" there, although > this can be confused very easily with "HEAD" which has special meaning > in git. Sure. I was mostly wondering why --trunk=head didn't just reuse the name in my local ref. A minor bug, perhaps? (And the FreeBSD community commonly refers to that branch as "current", so that's a name I can use locally.) > P.S.: Let me know if you give it a shot, so that we don't duplicate our > waste of time... I have some cycles to work on this, but I'd need some guidance around git-svn's internals. I'm not even sure where to start implementing the "branches2" hack you described... M.