From: Nathan Gray Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:23:50 +0000 (-0600) Subject: git-svn: multiple fetch/branches/tags keys are supported X-Git-Tag: v1.8.3~4^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/commitdiff_plain/eff714bddafd3d49cde0eac6ae670970da024fb4 git-svn: multiple fetch/branches/tags keys are supported "git svn" can be configured to use multiple fetch, branches, and tags refspecs by passing multiple --branches or --tags options at init time or editing the configuration file later, which can be handy when working with messy Subversion repositories. Add a note to the configuration section documenting how this works. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Eric Wong --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 58b6d540ca..6c0988e895 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -1032,6 +1032,18 @@ comma-separated list of names within braces. For example: tags = tags/{1.0,2.0}/src:refs/remotes/tags/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Multiple fetch, branches, and tags keys are supported: + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +[svn-remote "messy-repo"] + url = http://server.org/svn + fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk + fetch = branches/demos/june-project-a-demo:refs/remotes/project-a/demos/june-demo + branches = branches/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/* + branches = branches/demos/2011/*:refs/remotes/project-a/2011-demos/* + tags = tags/server/*:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/* +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + Note that git-svn keeps track of the highest revision in which a branch or tag has appeared. If the subset of branches or tags is changed after fetching, then .git/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove (or