Tom Huybrechts <tom.huybrechts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a git mirror of a svn repository. The tags in > this repository are not created trunk it self, but from subdirectories > of trunk. The tags and branches are in the standard places. > e.g: > /trunk/main -> tags/main-1 > /trunk/plugins/foo -> tags/foo-1 > /trunk/plugins/bar -> tags/bar-1 > > I run 'git svn clone -s svn-url target'. It starts going over the > history nicely until it reaches the first branch. It calls this branch > something like tags/tag-name@revision, and starts retrieving the > entire project history again from r1. This is repeated for every > branch. Hi Tom, This is a known problem with some repositories. My suggestion is to use individual "fetch" directives for each of those tags you want to follow. The -s/--stdlayout is only for projects that follow the SVN-recommended repository layout exactly and we haven't thought of a generic way to handle those non-standard tags in repos... -- Eric Wong -- 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