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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:13:36 -0500
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Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:28, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I mean that rejecting a fetch because upstream has weird history
>> would make no one happy.
>
> Agreed. What about when the remote's history is rewritten, do we want
> to just transplant the new history, or do we do a forced update of the
> remote?

I think treating it as a usual non-fast-forward update makes sense.

Log messages could be an annoying special case, though, since people
edit those a lot.  Does svn store the original log message somewhere?
(Please forgive my ignorance).  If not, I suppose downstream can
publish refs produced by "git replace" to cope.