Re: git-svn-Cloning repository with complex nesting

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Daniele Segato[off-list ref] 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