subgit import and multiple branches directories - subgit

Question

I'm trying to do an import using subgit. Just a one-time migration. My SVN structure contains:
branches
branch1
features
branch2
hotfixes
branch3
I'd like to convert all three to branches in git. I've tried:
proj=myproject; subgit import --svn-url <correctPath>/$proj --authors-file
~/authors --branches branches --branches branches/features
--branches hotfixes --tags tags $i
This seems to just use "hotfixes" as the only place to import from. (I'm using SubGit version 2.0.2 ('Patrick') build #2731.) I also tried using:
--branches "branches;branches/features;hotfixes"
But that completely failed (it was probably looking for a directory with semi-colons in it).
Any suggestion for the one-time import?
(Note, I saw this related question.)

Answer 1

You can use a combination of 'configure' + 'install' + 'uninstall' commands. I suppose, your repository has the following structure:
$ svn ls --depth infinity <SVN_URL>
branches/
branches/branch1/
branches/branch2/
branches/features/
branches/features/feature1/
branches/features/feature2/
hotfixes/
hotfixes/hotfix1/
hotfixes/hotfix2/
tags/
tags/tag1/
tags/tag2/
trunk/
Then do the following. Run 'configure' command:
$ subgit configure --svn-url <SVN_URL> repo
Edit repo/subgit/config file to this repository structure (or you can invent your own refs/heads/ namespaces, the only requirement is: the shouldn't be the same for different kinds of branches; if you need one-time import and everything under refs/heads/*, you can rename them later with a script):
trunk = trunk:refs/heads/master
branches = branches/*:refs/heads/*
branches = branches/features/*:refs/heads/features/*
branches = hotfixes/*:refs/heads/hotfixes/*
tags = tags/*:refs/tags/*
shelves = shelves/*:refs/shelves/*
Run 'install' command:
$ subgit install repo
Then if you run "git branch -a" from "repo" directory, you'll see something like that:
$ git branch -a
branch1
branch2
features/feature1
features/feature2
hotfixes/hotfix1
hotfixes/hotfix2
* master
Optionally you can run 'uninstall' command to disable synchronization temporary or forever (--purge option)
$ subgit uninstall [--purge] repo