Michael Lai(myllai@xxxxxxxxx)@030309-17:43: > After spending some hours struggling with git svn, it would appear > that it does not support svn projects stored in paths similar to > "http://foo.com/svn/repos/bar/myproject";, where "myproject" uses the > standard SVN tags/trunk/branches layout. I'm currently using git > 1.6.1, though I tried this with 1.6.2-rc2 as well. The resulting > .git/config looks something like this: > > [svn-remote "svn"] > url = http://foo.com/svn/repos/bar > fetch = myproject/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk > branches = bar/myproject/branches/*:refs/remotes/* > tags = bar/myproject/tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/* > > Yes, that's a redundant "bar" directory under "branches =" and "tags > =". The issue seems to lie in git-svn doing something intelligent to > extract the appropriate trunk directory. For the branches and tags, > however, it just takes the full URL and removes the repository root > (http://foo.com/svn/repos/bar) to produce "bar/myproject/{branches, > tags}/*". The second effect is that "git svn fetch" will run but exit > quietly without actually pulling anything from the repository. I > tracked down an existing thread on the mailing list from a while ago > (Feb 4th, title of "git-svn doesn't fetch anything"), but there was no > resolution. I've just run into this exact same issue. > There is a quick workaround, which was to make this change to match_paths: > < $self->{path_regex} ||= qr/^\/\Q$self->{path}\E\//; > --- > > $self->{path_regex} ||= qr/\/\Q$self->{path}\E\//; > > The additional "bar" directory gets pulled in when git-svn tries to > determine what paths to pull down, and tries to match > "/myproject/trunk" to "/bar/myproject/trunk". I've merely put a > band-aid on the situation. My perl is rudimentary at best, or I'd > have spent additional time to try to put in a "proper" patch, but was > wondering if anyone else had run into this problem and would be > willing to put in a fix (or point me in the right direction, that > works too). I messed about with disabling $Git::SVN::_minimize_url, but that seemed to break other things. Made worse for me was the fact that my 'bar' in the present was renamed from 'baz' in the past, so git-svn couldn't find it at r1. Very confusing! I'd like a nicer solution too. Tim -- Tim Stoakes -- 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
