I'm working on creating a git mirror of the MINIX 3 repository. I'm encountering a problem with the fact that the branches and tags often but not always are based on a subdirectory of trunk. It appears that when git-svn encounters one of these branches it starts over from revision 1. Is there a good way to deal with this or should I just let git-svn clone it as it will and use something like filter-branch to clean it up? (Note that I intend this to be an ongoing mirror so any solution has to let git-svn work properly afterwords.)
In particular, MINIX's trunk contains a bigports and a src subdirectory and some branches (and tags) have both subdirectories, but more often they branch just the src (kernel and servers) directory.
For visual learners:
/trunk
/bigports
/src
/boot
/commands
...
/branches
/R3.1.0
/bigports
/src
/R3.1.7
/boot
/commands
...
The SVN repo can be browsed at https://gforge.cs.vu.nl/gf/project/minix/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=/ but people should be careful trying to clone it fully using git-svn due to the issue above. I finally just used svnsync to create a local copy to clone from.
~~ Brian--
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