From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:55:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060227185557.GA32142@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060227184641.GA21684@hand.yhbt.net>
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:46:41AM -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
> > now i am a little confused about that... oh, i actually modified the
> > svn-git directly instead of a private working branch... perhaps that was
> > not intended.
>
> You should never, ever modify the git-svn-HEAD branch yourself.
> Interface branches should never be modified. It's the golden rule of
> interfacing between different SCM interfaces. Sorry, I've been doing
> things like this this for a while now I guess I didn't make it
> abundantly clear in the documentation.
If it is not supposed to be changed by the user, maybe it could be
stored as a tag.
Or maybe another type of reference can be introduced. refs/remote/, for
branches we are tracking, but which should not be modified locally.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 17:59 git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 18:46 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-27 18:55 ` Jan Harkes [this message]
2006-02-27 19:24 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-28 0:25 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-28 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-28 0:58 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-03-01 6:51 ` Eric Wong
2006-03-01 9:40 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-01 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 16:07 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-01 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 17:14 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 17:28 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-03-01 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 18:06 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 20:26 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 21:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 19:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-01 20:54 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-03-01 21:40 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-03-01 23:23 ` Carl Worth
2006-03-01 23:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-01 21:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-03-19 19:12 ` Petr Baudis
2006-03-19 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-19 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-27 19:04 ` [PATCH] contrib/git-svn: tell the user to not modify git-svn-HEAD directly Eric Wong
2006-02-27 19:34 ` git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 20:27 ` Eric Wong
2006-02-27 20:47 ` Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-02-27 20:55 ` [PATCH] contrib/git-svn: correct commit example in manpage Eric Wong
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