RE: git-svn with ignore-paths misses/skips some revisions during fetch

2012-11-12 Thread McHenry, Matt
Enrico asked: > Could it be that certain files spent parts of their historical lifetime > inside the ignored paths ? I left out one possibly important piece of information: My initial 'git svn fetch' used '-r' to "cauterize" the history, both because there is a lot of it (almost 12 yea

Re: git-svn with ignore-paths misses/skips some revisions during fetch

2012-11-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
> The problem is that the 'ignore-paths' approach sometimes > misses commits during a fetch, and then at some later time > will "realize" it and squash those changes onto some other, > unrelated commit. (I've never seen this happen with the > per-subdir 'fe

git-svn with ignore-paths misses/skips some revisions during fetch

2012-11-08 Thread McHenry, Matt
My company has a fairly large SVN repository, and I'm running into a bug with git-svn where some revisions aren't being fetched. The repository has a standard trunk/tags/branches layout, but there are some top-level directories under trunk/ that clearly don't belong in Git, and