Re: git svn --stdlayout 's little quirk.

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--- On Mon, 22/8/11, Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hin-Tak Leung venit, vidit, dixit
> 21.08.2011 11:38:
> > --- On Sat, 20/8/11, Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 
> >>> I think I found a small bug in git 1.7.6.
> Having
> >> "trunk" at the end of
> >>> the url in combination of --stdlayout is
> wrong, but it
> >> looks like that
> >>> git-svn tries to cope, but doesn't go try far
> enough:
> >>>
> >>> Doing this:
> >>> ----------------
> >>> git svn clone --stdlayout http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> >> android-quick-settings
> >>
> >> --stdlayout expects the "root" path of the code
> you're
> >> interested
> >> in (not necessarily the SVN repository root, but
> in this
> >> case they
> >> could be the same).
> >>
> >> Try the following instead:
> >>
> >> git svn clone --stdlayout \
> >>   http://quick-settings.googlecode.com/svn
> >> android-quick-settings
> > 
> > I know this is the correct way - what I meant was
> that, having "trunk" at the end is wrong but git-svn appears
> to try to correct it automatically, but haven't quite
> succceeded.
> 
> It is not trying to do that at all. git-svn is trying to
> figure out what
> the "base path" is in an svn repo which possibly hosts
> multiple repos,
> and that is what the message reports.

Okay... thanks for clarifying that. Maybe it could try to be clever? Afterall, --stdlayout isn't compatible with a URL ending in "trunk" (or having 'trunk' as part of the URL). Just a suggestion.

Hin-Tak
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