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* Cloning svn project with flat layout (remote wildcard inside path component)
@ 2010-09-17 21:14 Marcin Wiśnicki
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From: Marcin Wiśnicki @ 2010-09-17 21:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm trying to clone putty project from it's svn repository.
Unfortunately they are using very nonstandard layout where everything
is in a single directory:

/putty = trunk
/putty-branches-* = release branches
/putty-spinoffs = another branch
/putty-0.* = release tags

To get it working I tried following:

[svn-remote "svn"]
        url = svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt
        fetch = putty:refs/remotes/trunk
        branches = putty-branch-*:refs/remotes/branches/*
        branches = putty-{spinoffs}:refs/remotes/branches/putty-*
        tags = /putty-[0-9]*:refs/remotes/tags/*

Turns out however, such configuration is invalid since remote
wildcards are supported only in place of whole path component, not as
a part of it.

Obviously, it would be nice if it was working. Consider this a feature
request, if I may make one.

Actually, I have another: support extended regular expressions (with
capture groups) on remote side and back-references on local ref side,
giving the user control over local branch names.

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