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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-svn stubbornly re-creating branch "master"
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:57:52 +0200
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Cc: Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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2009/3/29 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 18:13:47 +0100, Marcin Owsiany
> <porridge@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> As you can see, "master" sprang back to life after the last command.
>
> It looks like git-svn does not like a repo without 'master'. It seems
> the problem was caused by this patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=1e889ef36c45b5554f7e317493ed3f4f901f8d9f
>
> I have added Eric to CC...

Why not just check if HEAD points to a valid commit, rather than
master? It should do the same
in the newly created repo case, and stop annoying people on updates.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson