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authorThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>2009-11-16 11:15:17 +0100
committerEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2009-11-16 23:33:58 -0800
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Document git-svn's first-parent rule
git-svn has the following rule to detect the SVN base for its operations: find the first git-svn-id line reachable through first-parent ancestry. IOW, git log --grep=^git-svn-id: --first-parent -1 Document this, as it is very important when using merges with git-svn. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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@@ -742,6 +742,16 @@ merges you've made. Furthermore, if you merge or pull from a git branch
that is a mirror of an SVN branch, 'dcommit' may commit to the wrong
branch.
+If you do merge, note the following rule: 'git svn dcommit' will
+attempt to commit on top of the SVN commit named in
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+git log --grep=^git-svn-id: --first-parent -1
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+You 'must' therefore ensure that the most recent commit of the branch
+you want to dcommit to is the 'first' parent of the merge. Chaos will
+ensue otherwise, especially if the first parent is an older commit on
+the same SVN branch.
+
'git clone' does not clone branches under the refs/remotes/ hierarchy or
any 'git svn' metadata, or config. So repositories created and managed with
using 'git svn' should use 'rsync' for cloning, if cloning is to be done