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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GSOC Proposal draft: git-remote-svn
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:21:00 -0500
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Andrew Sayers wrote:

> This is a pretty solid heuristic for detecting branches copied from an
> existing branch even in scheme (2) or (3), but does absolutely nothing
> for trunk detection.  Although trunk detection is trivial in the sane
> case (the "trunk" directory is the one and only trunk, end of story),
> here's a contrived example for why it's hard in the general case:

For the remote helper in its default configuration, I think it's ok to
assume the standard layout (trunk/, branches/*, tags/*).

Thanks for some useful examples.

Sincerely,
Jonathan