How do I import svn branches rooted in different directories into git using git-svn?

Question

I have an SVN repository structure like below. We are using multiple levels under branches for various release maintenance branches, plus a directory for feature branches.

git-svn init seems to work with a single --branches argument, i.e. it seems to expect all of the branches to be in a single location.

trunk
branches
  1.1
    1.2.1
    1.2.2
  1.2
    1.2.1
    1.2.2
    1.2.3
  features
    feature1
    feature2

Any ideas on how to handle this?

Thanks

Answer 1

In your config file, set the svn-remotes section to something like:

[svn-remote "svn"]
    url = svn://svnserver/repo
    fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
    branches = branches/*/*:refs/remotes/*
    tags = tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*

This should let you grab the nested branches.