From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>,
Git Central <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: allow to specify svn branch for commands
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 02:56:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070605095624.GA32225@muzzle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181017002.27463.3.camel@megatron>
Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 15:42 +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > "git-svn dcommit" ends up making an arbitrary decision when pushing
> > back merges. Allow the user to specify which one is used, albeit in a
> > rather hack-ish way.
>
> I've been thinking about this. I'm rather new to git internals, but if
> I've created a local copy of a remote branch (git-checkout -b
> local-branch --track remote-branch), can't git-svn use the tracking
> metadata to determine which part of the tree to dcommit to?
Probably. --track didn't exist when "git-svn dcommit" was written
and I didn't even know about it until now. Needless to say,
not everybody uses or knows about it, but it would probably be
a good option to add to git-svn.
--
Eric Wong
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-05 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-05 3:42 [PATCH] git-svn: allow to specify svn branch for commands Sam Vilain
2007-06-05 4:14 ` Eric Wong
2007-06-05 4:23 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-05 9:56 ` Eric Wong
2007-06-05 4:16 ` Stephen Touset
2007-06-05 9:56 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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