Re: git-svn and repository hierarchy?

[Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:58:36AM -0500, Peter Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:48:14PM -0500, Peter Harris wrote:
> >>
> >> True, but in my experience it happens considerably less often with
> >> git. I find and fix most of my typos when reviewing my change-set
> >> before doing a "git push" or "git svn dcommit".
> >
> > So you are rewriting yourself but not accept rewrites by svn ;-)
> 
> No, I am not rewriting myself *after I publish*. I see the smiley, but
> I think you missed the point.
> 
> "git push" or "svn ci" is the end of the rewrites.

I see.  Thanks for the clarification!

> >> Indeed. Or even not-so-random names, such as cloneX/topic-name if you
> >> prefer.
> >
> > That would have the risk of multiple clones pushing to the same branch.
> 
> Only if cloneX pushes to cloneY/topic-name. Does each clone not have a
> unique name?

I'd rather not rely on the clones having unique names.

> > Does that look sane?
> 
> No. But it doesn't look any more insane than any other workflow
> involving Subversion that I can think of. :-)

OK, I parse that as "there's not much room for improvement" :-)

Thanks for your great help!  I have learned a lot in this thread!