Re: git-svn stubbornly re-creating branch "master"

[Marcin Owsiany <marcin@owsiany.pl>]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:33:58PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Marcin Owsiany wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:55:01AM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
>>> This discussion seems to have stalled...
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:57:52PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>>>> 2009/3/29 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:
>>>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 18:13:47 +0100, Marcin Owsiany
>>>>> <porridge@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>>> As you can see, "master" sprang back to life after the last command.
>>>>> It looks like git-svn does not like a repo without 'master'. It seems
>>>>> the problem was caused by this patch:
>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=1e889ef36c45b5554f7e317493ed3f4f901f8d9f
>>>>>
>>>>> I have added Eric to CC...
>>>> Why not just check if HEAD points to a valid commit, rather than
>>>> master? It should do the same
>>>> in the newly created repo case, and stop annoying people on updates.
>>> There seems to be agreement that while conventions are nice, git should
>>> not force branch names on people. Can someone implement Mikael's
>>> suggestion?
>>
>> [silence]
>>
>> OK, a different question, then: if I wrote a patch to implement the
>> behaviour described by Mikael, would you consider including it?
>>
>
> Patches are always considered, but asking about inclusion before the
> code is written doesn't really work. If you care about this feature
> and really want it, you should write the patch and submit it to the
> mailing list for discussion. It might get dropped on the floor or it
> might get accepted, but without you actually showing that you want
> it, nothing at all will happen.

Yes, I understand that. I was more looking for some guidance on whether
working in that direction makes sense. I'm still a git newbie :-)

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