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From: Ray Chen <rchen@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-svn: New flag to add a file in empty directories
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:59:23 -0400
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Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>, git@vger.kernel.org
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrot=
e:
>
>> 4. If it is a goal to support long-term tracking of a Subversion
>> repository, then it would be good to add a config option to turn on =
this
>> feature permanently for a git-svn repository, so that the user doesn=
't
>> have to enter the extra options with each command invocation.
>
> Command-line options should be automatically converted into config fi=
le
> options inside git svn. =A0We should however discourage this from get=
ting
> mixed...
>
I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Do you mean that options
shouldn't be settable both on the command line and the config file?  I
think this situation already exists with the --no-metadata option.

>
>> 6. Documentation patches would also be required.
>
> Agreed, along with automated test cases.
>
No problem.  Might take a while, though.  I haven't looked at the test
case system yet.

- Ray