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Re: [PATCH] git-svn: allow to specify svn branch for commands

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STStephen Touset <stephen@touset.org>
Date
Jun 5, 2007, 04:16 UTC
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On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 15:42 +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> "git-svn dcommit" ends up making an arbitrary decision when pushing
> back merges.  Allow the user to specify which one is used, albeit in a
> rather hack-ish way.

I've been thinking about this. I'm rather new to git internals, but if I've created a local copy of a remote branch (git-checkout -b local-branch --track remote-branch), can't git-svn use the tracking metadata to determine which part of the tree to dcommit to?

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