* Stopping git-svn pulling a particular branch
@ 2012-09-28 4:58 Jon Seymour
2012-09-28 11:03 ` Jon Seymour
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From: Jon Seymour @ 2012-09-28 4:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
jon.
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* Re: Stopping git-svn pulling a particular branch
2012-09-28 4:58 Stopping git-svn pulling a particular branch Jon Seymour
@ 2012-09-28 11:03 ` Jon Seymour
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From: Jon Seymour @ 2012-09-28 11:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Git Mailing List
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> 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.
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