git svn clone of a single directory of SVN repository

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oconnor0 picture oconnor0 · Jul 25, 2013 · Viewed 26.5k times · Source

I am attempting to use git svn to clone a single directory of a SVN repository into a Git repository.

If I use git svn clone svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory, I get a Git repo without branches that mirror the branches in the source SVN repo.

If I use git svn --stdlayout svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory, I get an empty Git repo. The following is the output of the command:

Initialized empty Git repository in /directory/.git/
Using higher level of URL: svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory => svn+ssh://path/to/repo
W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (160013): Filesystem has no item: File not found: revision 100, path '/trunk/directory'
W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history.
This may take a while on large repositories

I had read that the way to fix the above was to add a revision range like -r 1000:HEAD, this still produces an empty repo. The output is:

Initialized empty Git repository in /directory/.git/
Using higher level of URL: svn+ssh://path/to/repo/trunk/directory => svn+ssh://path/to/repo

Any ideas on how to clone a subdirectory of an SVN repository using git-svn that still grabs all of the branches & tags from the source SVN respository?

Answer

Mykola Gurov picture Mykola Gurov · Jan 8, 2014

You don't want the standard layout, you want something like this:

git svn clone svn+ssh://path/to/repo/ --trunk=trunk/directory --branches=branches/*/directory --tags=tags/*/directory

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