Re: [PATCH v3] git-svn: Make following parents atomic

[Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>]

On Tuesday, 16. December 2008 14:22:44 Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> This patch has a very nice side effect, it seems to fix a long standing
> problem with subversion imports. Here's the original report:
> https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/4/8/1377514/thread
>
> Many of the 121 tags in my SVN tree were created by cvs2svn,
> which often created tags by copying older revisions
> of sub paths into the current tree.
>
> I've written a small script that checks out the same tag via git and SVN.
> It runs a diff against those two trees and saves the result to a file
> so I can manually check it. With git-svn from 1.6.0.5, the results are
> horrible: Over 30% of the tags didn't match the code in SVN.
>
> With git-svn from 1.6.1rc3, my first two manual probes look very good.
> Right now I'm reimporting the svn tree and will have the results
> of the complete "checkout comparison" tomorrow.

Yipeee, our SVN repository is fully migrated to git and split into handy 3-5GB 
repositories. All the git tags match the code from the SVN tags,
so I guess this was a good stress test for git-svn 1.6.0.6 :-)

Cheers,
Thomas