From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Owsiany Subject: Re: git-svn stubbornly re-creating branch "master" Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:16:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20090614211616.GA29742@beczulka> References: <20090329171347.GA26866@beczulka> <37fcd2780903291252i19bba8ccx9dfb73e763d95b15@mail.gmail.com> <237967ef0904030357u15ef77f2rb3299b6f6c651404@mail.gmail.com> <20090606105501.GA29758@beczulka> <20090614155205.GC11730@beczulka> <4A353486.2060900@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 14 23:16:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MFx4B-0008Ug-PX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:16:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754561AbZFNVQL (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:16:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754031AbZFNVQL (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:16:11 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f210.google.com ([209.85.219.210]:50157 "EHLO mail-ew0-f210.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752221AbZFNVQK (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:16:10 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so4507566ewy.37 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.36.73 with SMTP id v51mr2106711wea.215.1245014171114; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beczulka (dsl-49-57.dsl.netsource.ie [213.79.49.57]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i34sm9128482gve.13.2009.06.14.14.16.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mowsiany by beczulka with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MFx3o-00083B-Q7 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:16:16 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A353486.2060900@op5.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 : >>>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 18:13:47 +0100, Marcin Owsiany >>>>> 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 :-) -- Marcin Owsiany http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 "Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail." -- Unknown