Re: are hashes calculated from data

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
> You can minimize the impact of this problem, however.  The easiest way is:
>
> - have only a single person use git-svn
>
> - when committing stuff to git-svn, first checkout the *existing*
> git-svn branch, then use "git merge --no-ff mybranch", then "git svn
> dcommit".  The --no-ff is very important; this makes sure that a *new*
> commit is created (a merge commit) for the svn dcommit.  svn dcommit
> then creates only a single svn commit that includes all the patches
> from the whole branch.
>
> - then do 'git checkout mybranch; git merge git-svn' to get the svn commit back.
>
> At work, we have a cronjob that basically does most of these steps for
> us.  Then there's a central git repo that corresponds to the svn repo;
> people who want to use git can use that repo and not worry about
> git-svn.

Do you happen to have the cron script available for perusal anywhere?

I imagine many of the details would need to be changed for other
installations, but just looking at a working concrete example could be
very helpful...

Thanks,

-Miles

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