Re: [matplotlib-devel] git-svn matplotlib mirror

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 01/25/2011 06:53 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
[...]
>
> Darren,
>
> It looks like at least some of the problem is the origin/unit_support:
>
> efiring@manini:~/test/matplotlib.git.ddale$ git checkout origin/unit_support
> Checking out files: 100% (4514/4514), done.
> Note: checking out 'origin/unit_support'.
> [...]
> HEAD is now at 8d705be... refactoring, moved units conversion to
> units.UnitsManager
> efiring@manini:~/test/matplotlib.git.ddale$ ls
> course  CVSROOT  htdocs  matplotlib  scipy06  toolkits  users_guide
>
> It appears to have branched trunk, not trunk/matplotlib.  Junk it!
>
> I think that losing some bits of history from the git repo is entirely
> acceptable.  The history is still in the svn repo, if anyone really
> needs to dig back into the earliest recorded origins of unit_support.
>
> Eric

Or, maybe a rule like this will work?

match /branches/unit_support/matplotlib/
  repository matplotlib
  branch unit_support
end match

(I don't know how significant the parentheses are; I am guessing they 
are for regular expressions, which are not needed here.)

Eric