From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: git svn --stdlayout 's little quirk. Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:01:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4E521AD3.4040204@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <20110820183504.GA32179@dcvr.yhbt.net> <1313919482.36626.YahooMailClassic@web29501.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eric Wong , madduck@madduck.net, git@vger.kernel.org To: htl10@users.sourceforge.net X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 22 11:01:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvQNk-0002cV-Af for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:01:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754643Ab1HVJBM (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:01:12 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:50155 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752941Ab1HVJBK (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:01:10 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C35C209C5; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:01:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:01:09 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=zc+pMlTu9psLgONeUw+Qce DRojk=; b=hPI85+H5gjTcRh7gYYSq+tl3T7reaq60Djh+td0bOdN48tD6XG6RdG jdZfa0ThXh8g2Lj+dEbQtcXx29Ad5+fL8TT8FsJ4gLTOGdX+vKZ5Io9MfjnErbMO nauU/Xl2S/URdmPci01JjrhX6JqvX0Q4ZLdasJLnBg4c2qwkuOdIg= X-Sasl-enc: uvb2Dv2XVRLmWMbfB9sL8V6fINVOlQSdUu/sUavUxClj 1314003669 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.62]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE2649E0335; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:01:08 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110816 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <1313919482.36626.YahooMailClassic@web29501.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hin-Tak Leung venit, vidit, dixit 21.08.2011 11:38: > --- On Sat, 20/8/11, Eric Wong wrote: > >>> I think I found a small bug in git 1.7.6. Having >> "trunk" at the end of >>> the url in combination of --stdlayout is wrong, but it >> looks like that >>> git-svn tries to cope, but doesn't go try far enough: >>> >>> Doing this: >>> ---------------- >>> git svn clone --stdlayout http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ >> android-quick-settings >> >> --stdlayout expects the "root" path of the code you're >> interested >> in (not necessarily the SVN repository root, but in this >> case they >> could be the same). >> >> Try the following instead: >> >> git svn clone --stdlayout \ >> http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn >> android-quick-settings > > I know this is the correct way - what I meant was that, having "trunk" at the end is wrong but git-svn appears to try to correct it automatically, but haven't quite succceeded. It is not trying to do that at all. git-svn is trying to figure out what the "base path" is in an svn repo which possibly hosts multiple repos, and that is what the message reports. Michael