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From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>, normalperson@yhbt.net
Subject: Re: git svn: Supporting multiple branch subdirs?
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:25:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A390AFE.5070703@xiplink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A38FCEE.2020002@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
>> (Shouldn't that fetch line be head:refs/remots/head, since there's nothing called
>> "trunk" in the svn repo?  I used git-svn init --trunk=head ...)
> 
> The left hand side of the refspec refers to the svn repo, the right hand
> side only names your local ref. Feel free to put "head" there, although
> this can be confused very easily with "HEAD" which has special meaning
> in git.

Sure.  I was mostly wondering why --trunk=head didn't just reuse the name in my local ref.  A minor bug, perhaps?

(And the FreeBSD community commonly refers to that branch as "current", so that's a name I can use locally.)

> P.S.: Let me know if you give it a shot, so that we don't duplicate our
> waste of time...

I have some cycles to work on this, but I'd need some guidance around git-svn's internals.  I'm not even sure where to start implementing the "branches2" hack you described...

		M.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 21:46 git svn: Supporting multiple branch subdirs? Marc Branchaud
2009-06-13 11:46 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-06-15 17:29   ` Marc Branchaud
2009-06-17 14:25     ` Michael J Gruber
2009-06-17 15:25       ` Marc Branchaud [this message]
2009-06-18 14:03         ` Michael J Gruber
2009-06-18 14:28           ` Marc Branchaud
2009-06-18 16:00             ` Michael J Gruber
2009-06-18 14:31           ` [MONKEY PATCH] git-svn: allow two branch configurations Michael J Gruber
2009-06-22 14:50             ` Marc Branchaud
2009-06-23 17:02               ` [PATCH] git svn: Support multiple branch and tag paths in the svn repository Marc Branchaud
2009-06-25  9:36                 ` Eric Wong
2009-06-25 22:25                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-26  0:33                     ` Eric Wong
2009-06-26  5:18                       ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-26 18:11                         ` Eric Wong
2009-06-26 19:20                   ` Marc Branchaud
2009-06-26 20:49                     ` [PATCH] git svn: Doc update for multiple branch and tag paths Marc Branchaud
2009-06-26 20:57                     ` [PATCH] git svn: Support multiple branch and tag paths in the svn repository Eric Wong
2009-06-26 21:08                       ` [PATCH] git svn: Fix t9138-multiple-branches to use svn_cmd and (cd ...) syntax Marc Branchaud
2009-06-26 21:54                         ` Eric Wong
2009-06-27 15:03                           ` Marc Branchaud
2009-06-27 22:08                             ` Eric Wong

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