From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Pocock Subject: Re: git-svn: cloning an SVN repo with sub-branches and sub-tags Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:16:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4F75A413.409@pocock.com.au> References: <4F7467E1.3090004@pocock.com.au> <92FA9CF9-7E8E-4DE6-8524-030A0AD33C9E@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Zarzycki X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 30 14:23:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDar4-00040r-Qu for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:22:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760785Ab2C3MWw (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:22:52 -0400 Received: from mail1.trendhosting.net ([195.8.117.5]:42773 "EHLO mail1.trendhosting.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760773Ab2C3MWr (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:22:47 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.trendhosting.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF7715782; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:22:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail1.trendhosting.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (thp003.trendhosting.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oahTrnQf-E0w; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:22:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.5.2] (thp001.trendhosting.net [195.8.117.3]) by mail1.trendhosting.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1FB15765; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:22:29 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.12 In-Reply-To: <92FA9CF9-7E8E-4DE6-8524-030A0AD33C9E@apple.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 29/03/2012 15:40, Dave Zarzycki wrote: > You can make this work, but it is very fragile, doesn't scale well, and it only works on recent versions of git. For example, from the LLVM clang project: ... > branches = cfe/branches/Apple/*:refs/remotes/svn/misc/Apple/* > branches = cfe/branches/Apple/Necropolis/*:refs/remotes/svn/misc/AppleNecropolis/* In the first line, (Apple/*), can it accidentally think that Necropolis is a branch, when it actually appears to be a directory containing branches? Or does it consider all the lines in the file together?