Re: [PATCH] Allow git-svnimport to take "" as the trunk directory.

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Re: [PATCH] Allow git-svnimport to take "" as the trunk directory.

From: David Kastrup <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:29

Alberto Bertogli [off-list ref] writes:
Some repositories started with the trunk in "/" and then moved it to the
standard "trunk/" location.

On these repositories, the correct thing would be to call
git-svnimport -T "",
I would not call that the best solution: it makes the bad decision
from the past impact useful work in the future.  I very much like git
having a good toplevel directory structure.

There are two approaches possible: one is to version the mapping
trunk/tags/branches.  Another would be if one could tell git-svn where
to stick stuff that does not sort into trunk/tags/branches.
Incidentally, I've seen repositories that have something like a
"support" or "vendor" directory, too.

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Re: [PATCH] Allow git-svnimport to take "" as the trunk directory.

From: Leandro Lucarella <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:29

David Kastrup, el 14 de agosto a las 07:45 me escribiste:
Alberto Bertogli [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
Some repositories started with the trunk in "/" and then moved it to the
standard "trunk/" location.

On these repositories, the correct thing would be to call
git-svnimport -T "",
I would not call that the best solution: it makes the bad decision
from the past impact useful work in the future.  I very much like git
having a good toplevel directory structure.
Besides the example of a mutating trunk directory, I have repositories
where there is only trunk (in "/" directory) and it never changes. Without
this patch, I can't even import that kind of repositories.

With repositories with a mutating trunk directory, I used the options -s
and -l to incrementally import the repository. For example:
$ git svnimport -l 100 -T '' <repo>
and then
$ git svnimport -s 101 -T 'trunk' <repo>
There are two approaches possible: one is to version the mapping
trunk/tags/branches.  Another would be if one could tell git-svn where
to stick stuff that does not sort into trunk/tags/branches.
Incidentally, I've seen repositories that have something like a
"support" or "vendor" directory, too.
The patch is for git-svnimport, not git-svn (but maybe git-svn has
the same problem). Anyways, a way to map trunk/tags/branches to different
directories in different versions would be great, but is a different
problem than -T not supporting an empty string.

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Re: [PATCH] Allow git-svnimport to take "" as the trunk directory.

From: David Kastrup <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:29

Leandro Lucarella [off-list ref] writes:
David Kastrup, el 14 de agosto a las 07:45 me escribiste:
quoted
Alberto Bertogli [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
Some repositories started with the trunk in "/" and then moved it to the
standard "trunk/" location.

On these repositories, the correct thing would be to call
git-svnimport -T "",
I would not call that the best solution: it makes the bad decision
from the past impact useful work in the future.  I very much like git
having a good toplevel directory structure.
Besides the example of a mutating trunk directory, I have repositories
where there is only trunk (in "/" directory) and it never changes. Without
this patch, I can't even import that kind of repositories.
[...]
The patch is for git-svnimport, not git-svn
Oops.  In that case, I have no qualified opinion.

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David Kastrup
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