Re: git-svn error "Unable to extract revision information from commit ...~1"

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:
>> The problem seem to be that when I merge the head with another branch
>> git-svn does not know where to follow to meet the "svn trunk".
>
> The current release of git-svn doesn't support committing merges. It
> has no clue how to walk nonlinear history, as you point out. The
> current practice is to do "git merge --squash" when merging into the
> git-svn branch that you want to use as the basis for your svn
> commit. The --squash option will make git merge the contents of the
> other branch(es) but record the resulting tree as a regular commit,
> not as a merge.
>
> There is a work-in-progress patch which might help you if you need to
> preserve merge ancestry on the git side. Search the mailing list
> archives for "[PATCH] git-svn: allow dcommit to retain local merge
> information" if you want to try it (but be aware that it is just an
> initial implementation and may have bugs; it was posted so people
> could try it out and report back any problems to the author.)

... which has been cooking in 'next' for the past two weeks.