git-svn --ignore-paths

Question

I\'m struggling for a number of hours now with the --ignore-paths option to git-svn, in an attempt to fetch only certain tags from a large repository.

I want to start

Answer 1

Would someone be kind enough to comment on why the regex's are not suppressing fetches on the paths specified in the ignores-regex.

This path

ACME4.4/source/database/mssql/components/functions/vssver.scc

was fetched despite the --ignore-paths argument because it just didn't match the regex.

There is no - between "ACME" and "4.4" in this path. And if the regex is case-sensitive, "ACME" won't match "Acme".

This should have worked better:

git svn fetch --ignore-paths="ACME4.x|ACME5.0|ACME5.1|ACME5.2|ACME5.3|ACME5.4"

Note that --ignore-paths targets file names, not tags.

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(I bet you solved the issue long ago - this post is 4 years old).