From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Haberman Subject: git-svn writing mergeinfo Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:10:07 -0600 Message-ID: <20100211111007.b04e8f26.stephen@exigencecorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 11 18:19:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nfchh-00028F-Pv for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:19:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755774Ab0BKRTp (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:19:45 -0500 Received: from smtp112.dfw.emailsrvr.com ([67.192.241.112]:53002 "EHLO smtp112.dfw.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752982Ab0BKRTo (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:19:44 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 575 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:19:44 EST Received: from relay1.relay.dfw.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay1.relay.dfw.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B593B1278826 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:10:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay1.relay.dfw.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: stephen-AT-exigencecorp.com) with ESMTPSA id 8C555127924C for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:10:08 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I just stumbled across the mergeinfo support coming in git 1.7. Looks like very awesome stuff for those of us using git as a better-than-svn svn client. Trying 1.7-rc2 locally, I can see mergeinfo properties getting read. But the killer feature of doing a git merge --no-ff/git svn dcommit doesn't seem to generate and write mergeinfo properties back to svn. Unless I'm doing something wrong. Are there any plans for this, even if svn's model means only in a limited form? E.g. no multi-parent/reflective/etc. I was really surprised to learn that Bazaar writes mergeinfo back to svn [1]--I had assumed a DAG-based DVCS would just never get that good of svn interop. So, seeing that Bazaar does something like this gives me hope that git could do it eventually as well. Thanks, Stephen [1]: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrForeignBranches/Subversion