From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-svn: New flag to add a file in empty directories Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1305669635-10861-1-git-send-email-rchen@cs.umd.edu> <4DD373CD.6010607@alum.mit.edu> <20110518083314.GA22204@dcvr.yhbt.net> <4DD38DEE.4080604@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Eric Wong , Michael Haggerty , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 18 13:10:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMeeP-0005pG-Fm for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 13:10:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932900Ab1ERLKo convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:44 -0400 Received: from mail-yi0-f46.google.com ([209.85.218.46]:64337 "EHLO mail-yi0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932763Ab1ERLKn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:43 -0400 Received: by yia27 with SMTP id 27so486631yia.19 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 04:10:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DjDxIrqL9nAybfIizQmHH/Z0i9/GCDfKR73YA1Yypik=; b=LPGY8ZRVlcHbQp6qpZsU9iGbSUwaBLItCf8sGoVUAWRvp7sTeoqkMaLeNL2BQh8f5A b+C4cF3ZTNFjimiGT/d/3Ouaq5YdO0nSpYioIN2mJo1vs9Soq64UTo3ZMndyJRxhdCDc KTmk5H+ieMjXdBZexaPvvalPQe/FHkIHS6tqk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=TLh1g4+i655pffjF/X/4Cbo1lMN6mLQ2G0HK1FMTRuXaXnbKJo/O9YhQZ0e/qdAdCd laPe54PjEUqbcIWz4w7JeuatsteXklGBD9SLFyEVwe9wnRRlqAQU+/xYazxdwqQYol7x U53XTfdSGqHXzPK4Vpp35dVyGCAnq+TSDV0c4= Received: by 10.236.156.202 with SMTP id m50mr1777641yhk.407.1305717043084; Wed, 18 May 2011 04:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.111.44 with HTTP; Wed, 18 May 2011 04:10:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DD38DEE.4080604@drmicha.warpmail.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: hKrS8M2xyQAL1P-NYHI_j4ejR2o Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: >> >> I strongly believe git-svn should leave no trace. =A0Nobody but the = user >> using git-svn should know they're using git-svn to interact with an = SVN >> repo. =A0This allows users to stay under the radar of any idiotic ru= les >> (or knee-jerk reactions of FUD) their organization may have against >> using non-standard SVN clients. =A0So far, it's worked out pretty we= ll, >> git-svn users slowly and quietly develop clout and influence to migr= ate >> their repos from SVN to git. > > git-svn's maintenance of these files would be simpler if we used a > special file for that, say .git-svn-empty-dir, and teach dcommit to > ignore it. That way git clones can share it and git svn dcommit is > unimpaired. The only problem occurs when a new git-svn commits these, > and old git clones that and an old git-svn dcommits from that clone. > I'll let people more experienced than I come to a conclusion on this on= e. I can say I'm loath to spend a lot of time on this, given that it might all be replaced within two months by Dmitry Ivankov's GSoC project. - Ray