Re: "git svn reset" only resets current branch ?

[Ben Jackson <ben@ben.com>]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:29:28PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:
> Yann Dirson <ydirson@linagora.com> wrote:
> > I just tried the new "git svn reset" from master, and got puzzled that
> > only the svn branch which is an ancestor of current git HEAD got rolled
> > back.  Is that the expected behaviour ?  It would not make it very easy to
> > fixup imports from svn trees with lots of branches/tags.
> 
> Ben was the original implementer of this idea, so I'm not sure of his
> reasoning behind it.  For one, it's easier to only roll back one svn
> branch.  Perhaps adding an --all flag to this command would be the best
> way to go?

The only SVN repos I use git-svn with are either too huge and complex to
fully import with git (up to r135000 at work) or too small to have any
branches (all the various open source projects I've git-svn cloned).  So
the main reason it works that way is that I've never really used git-svn
with branches.

Eric,

Do you expect that it would work to reset one branch and re-fetch it
without touching the other branches?  If not, it would probably imply:

Should cmd_reset always loop over all remotes like cmd_multi_fetch?

As the "opposite of fetch" should it take '--all' and conditionally
loop?

Yann,

It would help if you made a test case (or extended t9139-git-svn-reset.sh)
that illustrated the problem and the desired behavior.

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