On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > G'day > > An svn developer created a branch from a subdirectory of the trunk > rather than by copying trunk itself. > > I want to avoid pulling this branch into my git repo with git svn > fetch because the re-rooting pulls in too much history and content > that I don't want. > > Is there any easy way to achieve this? I tried used the --ignore-paths > option, but this doesn't seem suited to the purpose. > > I can delete the SVN branch if that will help, but past experience > suggests that it won't. > Answering my own question. There is an undocumented option to git-svn --ignore-refs which can be used to achieve this. I found that I had to manually delete the directories corresponding to the bogus branches from .git/svn/refs/remotes, then re-run git svn fetch with the --ignore-refs option set to a regex that matched the bogus branches. This allowed me to fetch everything else I needed to fetch and advanced the maxRevs metadata in .git/svn/.metadata past the problematic branches so that subsequent svn fetch calls avoided the attempts to fetch the bogus branches. I'll draft a documentation patch when I get a chance... jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html