From: <pacco@tropezien.de>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to get rid of doubled branch after renaming a branch in svn-repository
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:08:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35e60ee2f6d83801d130d53a56a8ae18@tropezien.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF6553C.70500@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Hi Michael,
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:01:32 +0100, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
[snipped]
> svn records the rename as a copy+delete (it also sets some rename
> info
> which git-svn seems to ignore). So, git-svn stays on the safe side by
> keeping the branch. Note that deleting the branch would possibly
> delete
> at least some info since the branch name is not recorded in the
> commit
> (if you use svn.noMetadata).
>
> You can safely delete the branch if you're sure its head commit is
> contained in some other branch (as will be for an ordinary rename).
thank you for your explanation. I suspected that this issue might be a
mixture of different VCS-philosophy and uncertainty-handling.
Okay, then I will delete the branch manually. Of course I would have
preferred to have an automatic solution, because I got attention on this
renaming by accident. I hope renaming a branch will not become a new
trend in repository actions.
pacco
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2010-12-01 12:48 How to get rid of doubled branch after renaming a branch in svn-repository pacco
2010-12-01 14:01 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-12-01 15:08 ` pacco [this message]
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