> My practical solution was to skip the man in the middle and ask the SVN > server directly for the property values
Thanks, that helped a lot! Alex Beste Grüße, Alex -- Alexander Groß http://therightstuff.de/ On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Andreas Heiduk <ashei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 19.08.2017 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Groß: > >> $ git svn show-externals >> >> # /trunk/ >> /trunk/https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gc-webdav/svn webdav >> /trunk/https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gc-webdav/svn@1 webdav-at-revision > > This is the (bugged) output of `git svn show-externals` for "new > style" svn:externals. > >> >> # /trunk/sub directory/ >> /trunk/sub directory/https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gc-webdav/svn 'webdav in >> subdir' >> >> An earlier version contains just one external: >> >> $ git svn show-externals --revision 8 >> >> # /trunk/ >> /trunk/webdav https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gc-webdav/svn/ > > And that the proper output for "old style" svn:externals. > >> It seems like the output is inconsistent. [...] > > SVN changed/extended the svn:externals format in version 1.5. > (See [1] for details). One thing is - they switched the > order of the arguments. `git svn` dit not pick up these changes > and hence interprets the new format incorrectly. See [2] for > a similar discussion - it is from 2012! > >> This makes consuming the output of git svn show-externals in HEAD >> difficult because the parts are not clearly separated by space and >> sometimes the path is the first element, sometimes it's a combination >> of first and last elements. > > My practical solution was to skip the man in the middle and ask the SVN > server directly for the property values with something like that: > > svn propget svn:externals -r 42 http://my-repo-url/path/to/ext/dir > > I used the output to hardcode the values during the conversion. > > > > [1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.advanced.externals.html > [2] > https://public-inbox.org/git/e59cce45-6f92-4748-9b6e-2a5626479...@nikolaus-demmel.de/
