Re: git-svn merge helper

["Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>]

On 2007.09.30 16:15:49 +0200, Benoit SIGOURE wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently discovered git-svn and absolutey love it. One thing that I'm
>> missing though, is an equivalent of "svn merge" for merging between svn
>> remotes, to support the SVN way of using "squashed" merges, where you
>> just note the merge meta-data in the commit message. "git merge" didn't
>> work for me (and probably isn't expected to work) to merge between two
>> svn branches, so I've resorted to cherry-picking the required commits
>> one by one into a temporary branch and then squashing them together by
>> doing a --squash merge with a second temporary branch (as in [1]).
>
> I fail to see why you'd want to reproduce the broken behavior of svn merge. 
>  Anyways, git-svn is a great way to merge SVN branches, unfortunately it 
> can't detect when merges happened on the SVN side.  I think you can use it 
> nevertheless by manually adding a graft at the last merge point, which 
> would help you merging the right revisions without having to specify what 
> needs to be merged (unless someone made another merge on the SVN side, in 
> which case you need to update your graft).

Then how does that work? The manpage explicitly says that I should not
use git-{pull,merge} on branches I want to dcommit from. And a trivial
test immediately got the expected effect of git-svn trying to commit to
trunk instead of the branch.

Thanks,
Björn