How to prevent git svn rebase to create empty directories

Question

In short the problem is, when I run git svn rebase, I got a bunch of "creating empty directory: ..."

At the svn side, in trunk, there's a directory named TOD(Trunk Only Dir), with a lot of files in it. in another branch, there's no such directory at all.

When I cloned this svn repository with git svn, on master things are all right, but on the branch, I got the TOD directory and the same directory structure except there's no files in it.

If I rm the TOD directory (safe because git doesn't track directories), and switch to master and run git svn rebase, I got the "creating empty direcotry" messages, then when I checkout the branch, the TOD directory comes back.

All in all, the question is, how to prevent git svn from creating empty TOD directories on the branch?

Answer 1

I believe @ben-tebulin is correct, that by doing

git config svn-remote.svn.automkdirs false
git config svn.rmdir true

should make things right. Unfortunately I soon moved to other projects and didn't have a chance to verify it.

At the time of writing this, I, almost lost my svn-fu, did a test and couldn't reproduce the problem, and it looks git-svn can now switch between branches cleanly.