[Kde-scm-interest] Re: Using svn2git to capture only a couple of files in a directory

[Michael Pyne]

On Friday, December 24, 2010 01:34:41 Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:21:40 -0300
> 
> Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Michael Pyne wrote:
> > > As a followup, I've tried adding a "prefix /" to the applicable rules
> > > to force there to be some path component in the resultant filename.
> > 
> > Okay, this is a bit disgusting, but it works (at least in the
> > 411384-420000 revision range you were converting):
> > 
> > match /trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts/(kdesvn-build.*)
> > 
> >   repository kdesrc-build
> >   branch master
> >   prefix /\1
> >   min revision 414006
> >   max revision 1143245
> > 
> > end match
> > 
> > match /trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts/(kdesrc-build.*)
> > 
> >   repository kdesrc-build
> >   prefix /\1
> >   min revision 1143246
> >   branch master
> > 
> > end match
> 
> This is what you need to do. The entire match of the "match line" will be
> removed from the path that the match is done against. So if you match on a
> file the path feed to git will be empty. The remedy for this what is shown
> above, use a prefix that recreates the path as you would like it to show
> up in git.
> 
> Also guessing that the script was renamed in r1143246 this would result in
> a repo with both kdesvn-build.* and kdesrc-build.* as the deletion of
> kdesvn-build.* will never match. To fix this simply remove the min/max
> revisions.

OK, thanks for the help and feedback. Someone else is running a conversion now 
but I will check back later and see if it completes.

As an aside, it might be useful to have this "hack" recorded somewhere like 
the kde-ruleset. I'll probably put it up on TechBase once I've confirmed that 
it works, but I wasn't able to find anything like it on the Internet when I 
was looking.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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