A git subdirectory in an svn repository?

Question

Hi there, I've got an existing project running in an SVN repository. I want to make use of a 3rd-party app that's hosted on github. All of my external apps I'm currently using are hosted in external SVN repositories, so I have a directory 'externals', that has

$ svn pg svn:externals externals
externalApp1     http://externalApp1.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
externalApp2     http://externalApp2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Now, I want to add 'externalApp3' that's hosted on github and have a resulting dir structure like:

externals
 |- externalApp1 # svn
 |- externalApp2 # svn
  \ externalApp3 # git

Now, the kicker: I want to be able to just run 'svn-update' from the root of my repository and it to automagically do a 'git pull' on my externalApp3. Is this possible? Are there any tools out there that would allow this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I don't know of any tools which support combined Git/SVN repositories, but you could try just using a script:

#!/bin/sh
# Name "update", call as ./update from the repository root
svn update
(cd externalApp3 && git pull)