From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Wong Subject: Re: [PATCH] svn: allow git-svn to update remotes outside of refs/remotes Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:38:18 -0700 Message-ID: <20090810083818.GB8698@dcvr.yhbt.net> References: <1249350039-7338-1-git-send-email-adambrewster@gmail.com> <1249350039-7338-2-git-send-email-adambrewster@gmail.com> <1249350039-7338-3-git-send-email-adambrewster@gmail.com> <1249350039-7338-4-git-send-email-adambrewster@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Adam Brewster X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 10 10:38:28 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 1MaQOh-0001fY-7I for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:38:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752212AbZHJIiT (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:38:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751803AbZHJIiT (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:38:19 -0400 Received: from dcvr.yhbt.net ([64.71.152.64]:50255 "EHLO dcvr.yhbt.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751764AbZHJIiT (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:38:19 -0400 Received: from localhost (user-118bg0q.cable.mindspring.com [66.133.192.26]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2BD431F585; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1249350039-7338-4-git-send-email-adambrewster@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Adam Brewster wrote: > It may be convenient for some users to store svn remote tracking > branches outside of the refs/remotes/ heirarchy. [1] and [2] indicate > that there is interest in making this possible. > > [1] http://www.gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/16/convert-git-svn-tag-branches-to-real-tags.html > [2] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/8/30/256359 I definitely agree with the direction of this... We'll need a mechanism for migrating existing repos from .git/svn/foo/* => .git/svn/refs/remotes/foo/* to avoid breaking things for people with existing repos. I guess that's why you've been looking at (and helping fix) the migrate test :) -- Eric Wong