Re: [PATCH 0/2] git-svn: use svn:global-ignores when creating .gitignores

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

"Alex Galvin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> Git-SVN does not currently use the svn:global-ignores property added in
> Subversion 1.8 when showing or creating .gitignore files. This causes
> Git-SVN to track files that are ignored by this directive in Subversion.

That is a well written explanation of what issue the patches want to
address.

> The following patches add svn:global-ignores to the list of public svn
> properties, and update git svn show-ignore and git svn create-ignore to use
> this attribute (as well as svn:ignore).

Paying attention to the new property and get it reflected to
.gitignore on Git side may be a reasonable solution, especially if
we ignore older version of Subversion.  But I have a naïve question.
If a new version of git-svn starts to rely on the new property that
is only available in SVN 1.8, would it create problems with folks
whose SVN installation does not understand it?  Would it cause
problems to them?

Anyway, in this project, explanation of the problem the patches
address, with the outline of the solution, should be in the proposed
commit log message of the patches themselves, not just written in
the cover letter.  Can you redo the proposed log messages of these
two patches, where you have none in this iteration?

Thanks.

> Alex Galvin (2):
>   git-svn: add public property `svn:global-ignores`
>   git-svn: use `svn:global-ignores` to create .gitignore
>
>  git-svn.perl    | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  perl/Git/SVN.pm |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: c2b3f2b3cdbf5ad9feb978dd367d77561a1271f7
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1747%2Fav-gal%2Fgit-svn-global-ignores-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1747/av-gal/git-svn-global-ignores-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1747