Re: Problem importing from SVN repository with branches/tags at multiple levels using git-svn
On 01/15/2014 02:10 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: We have an SVN repository that has a structure for tags (likewise for branches) like this: tags/tag1 tags/tag2 tags/tag3/ tags/subdir/tag4 tags/subdir/tag5 The idea is that I want to have git-svn import everything inside subdir as tags and everything else inside the root tags directory as tags, so I end up with tag1-tag5 in Git. I've got tags= entries like this in the Git configuration to try to achieve this: tags = tags/subdir/*:refs/remotes/tags/* tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/* My expectation was that everything inside subdir would match the first line first and everything else would match the second line, so everything would work out OK. Unfortunately it seems like for the tags inside subdir, it's matching the second line and therefore trying to import everything in there as directories inside one tag called subdir. Changing the order of those lines doesn't seem to help either, it seems determined to try to match to tags/* regardless of what order the lines are in. Clearly it would have been better if the repository had not been structured this way. However, rearranging it now won't help since the paths are like this in the SVN repository history. The only solution I've found that kind of works is to use tags/{tag1,tag2,tag3} instead of tags/*. Unfortunately there are a ton of tags in that directory and adding in a giant list of tags there seems to slow down the import process a great deal. Also, there are potentially still tags being created in that root directory, so I would have to keep regenerating and updating this list in the Git configuration every time one was added. So this is not a good solution. It would be much easier if I could get a wildcard solution to work here. Any thoughts? Just to respond to my own question, it appears that the ignore-refs configuration option allows one to deal with this situation. In this case one would add something like: ignore-refs = refs/remotes/tags/subdir$ to prevent git-svn from trying to create a Git ref called subdir. Unfortunately there seems to be no documentation at all about this option other than in the source commit which introduced it, unlike all the other settings for git-svn - that seems like a bit of an oversight.. -- Robert Hancock System Analyst SED Systems Email: hanc...@sedsystems.ca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
RE: Problem importing from SVN repository with branches/tags at multiple levels using git-svn
-Original Message- Behalf Of Robert Hancock Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:03 AM Subject: Re: Problem importing from SVN repository with branches/tags at multiple levels using git-svn On 01/15/2014 02:10 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: We have an SVN repository that has a structure for tags (likewise for branches) like this: tags/tag1 tags/tag2 tags/tag3/ tags/subdir/tag4 tags/subdir/tag5 [snip] We did this recently and decided there is only one way to do it reliably. Copy all the tags, within subversion itself, into the structure expected by git, then use git svn following the procedures outlined in the manual. Copying tags is cheap in subversion, and you can always delete them afterwards if you want.
Problem importing from SVN repository with branches/tags at multiple levels using git-svn
We have an SVN repository that has a structure for tags (likewise for branches) like this: tags/tag1 tags/tag2 tags/tag3/ tags/subdir/tag4 tags/subdir/tag5 The idea is that I want to have git-svn import everything inside subdir as tags and everything else inside the root tags directory as tags, so I end up with tag1-tag5 in Git. I've got tags= entries like this in the Git configuration to try to achieve this: tags = tags/subdir/*:refs/remotes/tags/* tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/* My expectation was that everything inside subdir would match the first line first and everything else would match the second line, so everything would work out OK. Unfortunately it seems like for the tags inside subdir, it's matching the second line and therefore trying to import everything in there as directories inside one tag called subdir. Changing the order of those lines doesn't seem to help either, it seems determined to try to match to tags/* regardless of what order the lines are in. Clearly it would have been better if the repository had not been structured this way. However, rearranging it now won't help since the paths are like this in the SVN repository history. The only solution I've found that kind of works is to use tags/{tag1,tag2,tag3} instead of tags/*. Unfortunately there are a ton of tags in that directory and adding in a giant list of tags there seems to slow down the import process a great deal. Also, there are potentially still tags being created in that root directory, so I would have to keep regenerating and updating this list in the Git configuration every time one was added. So this is not a good solution. It would be much easier if I could get a wildcard solution to work here. Any thoughts? -- Robert Hancock System Analyst SED Systems Email: hanc...@sedsystems.ca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html