Re: git-svn-Cloning repository with complex nesting

[Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Daniele Segato<daniele.bilug@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, this is my first message in the list: this may be a newbie
> question and my English may not be very good.

to prove my sentence:
the subject should have been "git-svn-Cloning repository with
_complex_ nesting" :-)

I received help on IRC (#git) and managed to setup the svn-remote in
an acceptable way

> I've an SVN repository structured like this:
>
> http://<url>/path/to/repo
>    |
>  HEAD
>    |----- root
>    |
>  BRANCHES
>    |----- V1.0
>    |         |----- root
>    |
>    |----- V1.1
>    |         |----- root
>    |
>    |----- V1.2
>    |         |----- root
>    |
>    |----- DEV
>    |         |----- FEATURE1
>    |         |            |----- root
>    |         |
>    |         |----- FEATURE2
>    |         |            |----- root
>    |         |
>    |         |----- FEATURE3
>    |                      |----- root
>    |
>    |----- BUILDS
>              |----- BUILD1
>              |            |----- root
>              |
>              |----- BUILD2
>              |            |----- root
>              |
>              |----- BUILD3
>                           |----- root


this is my setting:

git init
git svn init svn://svn.mydomain.com/path/to/repo -T HEAD -b BRANCHES -t TAGS

vim .git/config # edited the svn-remote config as follow:
[svn-remote "svn"]
	url = svn://svn.mydomain.com
	fetch = path/to/repo/HEAD/root:refs/remotes/svn/trunk
	branches = path/to/repo/BRANCHES/*/root:refs/remotes/svn/*
	tags = path/to/repo/TAGS/*/root:refs/remotes/svn/tags/*

git svn fetch

it seems to work as expected: only those branches that has a "root"
folder got downloaded and fetched.

I still couldn't retrieve the DEV/FEATUREx branches in that way.
On IRC they told me I can add another line for branches:

branches = path/to/repo/BRANCHES/*/*/root:refs/remotes/svnbis/*

but I haven't been successful on this. They told me that I can add
multiple branches lines only on newer versions of git.
Probably that's the reason for that.
I have git version 1.5.6.5.

It is not a big deal: I can live without those branches even if I'll
like to have them too.

I have another problem now on that SVN repo but I'll open another
topic about that because it is not related.

Regards,
Daniele