git-svn clone checkouts wrong repo?

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hyperboreean picture hyperboreean · Sep 21, 2009 · Viewed 14.2k times · Source

So I am trying to switch to git, by using git-svn. I am having a svn repo called myrepo from which I want to clone just the project called myproject. The thing is that by running the following command:

git svn clone path-to-repo/myrepo/myproject --stdlayout --prefix=svn myproject

the whole repo myrepo is cloned rather than just myproject. I tried using -T, -t, -b as well to let git know about the layout of the project, but without any success. I always get the following output:

Using higher level of URL: path-to-repo/myrepo/myproject => path-to-repo/myrepo

and tries to clone that one. Am I doing something wrong? It might be that the svn repo layout could be broken or git incompatible ?

Answer

kartikmohta picture kartikmohta · Sep 24, 2009

You can try the --no-minimize-url option.

According to http://schacon.github.com/git/git-svn.html:

--no-minimize-url

When tracking multiple directories (using --stdlayout, --branches, or --tags options), git svn will attempt to connect to the root (or highest allowed level) of the Subversion repository. This default allows better tracking of history if entire projects are moved within a repository, but may cause issues on repositories where read access restrictions are in place. Passing --no-minimize-url will allow git svn to accept URLs as-is without attempting to connect to a higher level directory. This option is off by default when only one URL/branch is tracked (it would do little good).

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