From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samir Faci Subject: svn repo a submodule? Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:43:20 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 05 16:43:30 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O9fov-0000AO-Ku for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:43:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933664Ab0EEOnY (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 10:43:24 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f225.google.com ([209.85.218.225]:54012 "EHLO mail-bw0-f225.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932329Ab0EEOnX (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 10:43:23 -0400 Received: by bwz25 with SMTP id 25so3017176bwz.28 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 07:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.34.201 with SMTP id m9mr4438343bkd.127.1273070600811; Wed, 05 May 2010 07:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.57.71 with HTTP; Wed, 5 May 2010 07:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've been using git submodule to refer to external repos that I don't maintain. (which works great) So far in order to use an svn repo as a submodule I end up doing a git svn clone, and basically have a crontab job that pulls from svn and pushes to git repo. Then I end up using the git repo it creates as a git submodule. The workflow does work, though it is a bit tedious. I was wondering if there was any particular reason why having an svn repo as a submodule isn't supported at this time. Or if there was a better way of accomplishing this that escapes me. -- Samir Faci *insert title* fortune | cowsay -f /usr/share/cows/tux.cow