From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bryan Jacobs Subject: Re: git-svn and mergeinfo Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:52:56 -0400 Organization: White Oak Technologies Message-ID: <20110906095256.205dd5d0@robyn.woti.com> References: <20110829132052.0ad7a088@robyn.woti.com> <4E5F4987.5040205@alum.mit.edu> <20110901104327.14d4dba6@robyn.woti.com> <1315313800.9839.10.camel@bee.lab.cmartin.tk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Michael Haggerty , git@vger.kernel.org To: Carlos =?UTF-8?B?TWFydMOtbg==?= Nieto X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 06 15:53:13 2011 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 1R0w5R-00052P-7s for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:53:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754530Ab1IFNxA convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:53:00 -0400 Received: from mail02.woti.us ([66.92.158.6]:35446 "EHLO roscoe.woti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753209Ab1IFNw6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:52:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by roscoe.woti.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4312504D37EC; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:52:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at woti.com Received: from roscoe.woti.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (roscoe.woti.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id w1PkgvQ0ZbY5; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:52:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from robyn.woti.com (robyn.woti.com [192.168.168.187]) by roscoe.woti.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5BBEA504D37EA; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:52:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1315313800.9839.10.camel@bee.lab.cmartin.tk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:56:38 +0200 Carlos Mart=C3=ADn Nieto wrote: > You can also save the mergeinfo to a file, add the line, and use > --mergeinfo=3D$(cat /tmp/some-file) to set it. It is indeed awkward, = but > blindly replacing every space with a newline is not always the right > option. If a merged directory contains a space, this change will brea= k > the mergeinfo, even if you're properly quoting your variable or using > the $(cat /some/file) method. >=20 > Cheers, > cmn Ah, a situation I neglected to consider! Perhaps we should revert this patch, since I worked up the initiative to write an auto-populating-mergeinfo patch for git-svn anyhow. Bryan Jacobs