No. A git-svn clone converts the entire repository into git. SVN checkouts do not have the entire repository and so cannot be cloned from. This is the primary advantage of switching from SVN or CVS to a distributed system (like git).
You right-click on the root, select repo-browser, find the relevant bits you want to download to your working copy, right click and select the “update to revision”. To remove items you have downloaded, right click on the item in your working copy, select the same menu (update to revision) and select “exclude” from the depth … Read more
What you need is called sparse checkout. In your case you can: svn co –depth files file:///project project cd project svn up –set-depth infinity dir1 dir2 dir4 svn up –set-depth empty dir3 svn up –set-depth infinity dir3/subdir1 dir3/subdir3 Can I add subdir2 to dir3 after a checkout? Yes: svn up –set-depth infinity dir3/subdir2 How can … Read more
It looks like you were successful but I wanted to include a step-by-step guide in the hopes that it is helpful to others. Checkout trunk into a working copy with depth = “Only this item” Open working copy Go to repo browser from the working copy Select your desired project subfolder(s), right-click and select “Update … Read more
There’s no way to get rid of the need to store pristines at this point. It’s been talked about but it’s actually not an easy problem to solve because there’s so many different use case situations that would be presented by removing them optionally. With 1.7 the pristine storage was changed and in some cases … Read more
svn export simply extracts all the files from a revision and does not allow revision control on it. It also does not litter each directory with .svn directories. svn checkout allows you to use version control in the directory made, e.g. your standard commands such as svn update and svn commit.
The SVN Book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.6/svn-book.html#svn.branchmerge.using.create) doesn’t recommend creating a branch from the local working copy. While it’s also possible to create a branch by using svn copy to duplicate a directory within the working copy, this technique isn’t recommended. It can be quite slow, in fact! Copying a directory on the client side is a linear-time … Read more
You can’t directly ignore folders on a checkout, but you can use sparse checkouts in svn 1.5. For example: $ svn co http://subversion/project/trunk my_checkout –depth immediates This will check files and directories from your project trunk into ‘my_checkout’, but not recurse into those directories. Eg: $ cd my_checkout && ls bar/ baz foo xyzzy/ Then … Read more
Just add a . to it: svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/waterproject/trunk . That means: check out to current directory.
You’ve already discovered the simplest way to specify a shallow clone in Git-SVN, by specifying the SVN revision number that you want to start your clone at ( -r$REV:HEAD). For example: git svn clone -s -r1450:HEAD some/svn/repo Git’s data structure is based on pointers in a directed acyclic graph (DAG), which makes it trivial to … Read more