Re: git-svn: creating tags from a subdirectory of trunk

[Tom Huybrechts <tom.huybrechts@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Tom Huybrechts <tom.huybrechts@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to setup a git mirror of a svn repository.  The tags in
>> this repository are not created trunk it self, but from subdirectories
>> of trunk. The tags and branches are in the standard places.
>> e.g:
>> /trunk/main -> tags/main-1
>> /trunk/plugins/foo -> tags/foo-1
>> /trunk/plugins/bar -> tags/bar-1
>>
>> I run 'git svn clone -s svn-url target'. It starts going over the
>> history nicely until it reaches the first branch. It calls this branch
>> something like tags/tag-name@revision, and starts retrieving the
>> entire project history again from r1. This is repeated for every
>> branch.
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> This is a known problem with some repositories.  My suggestion is to
> use individual "fetch" directives for each of those tags you want to
> follow.
>
> The -s/--stdlayout is only for projects that follow the SVN-recommended
> repository layout exactly and we haven't thought of a generic way to
> handle those non-standard tags in repos...
>
> --
> Eric Wong
>

Hi Eric,

The repository I'm trying to convert is that of Hudson. I did some
digging in the list archives, and found this came up earlier
(2009/01/08).
Back then you replied:

"""
Alternately, you could just clone the root and have all the branches all
over the place in one tree (your eventually working copy will be huge).

  git svn clone https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson


Basically this is the equivalent of:

  svn co https://svn.dev.java.net/svn/hudson

Except you'll have the full history.
"""

Is that still valid ? That is what I did, and which caused the
behaviour I described.

Tom