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[RFC/PATCH] git-svn: add support for --first-parent

From
LHLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 5, 2007, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID
<1188984929315-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>

When git-svn uses git-log to find embedded 'git-svn-id'-lines in commit messages, it can get confused when local history contains merges with other git-svn branches. But if --first-parent is supplied to git-log, working_head_info() will only see 'branch-local' commits and thus the first commit containing a 'git-svn-id' line should refer to the correct subversion branch.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
---

This passes the test-suite and I've used it to correctly dcommit against a real-life repository after merging subversion-branches in git ('dcommit -n' reported the wrong subversion branch while 'dcommit -n --first-parent' got it right, so I did 'dcommit --first-parent' and then inspected the logs and diffs in the subversion repo and everything looked swell).

But I'm not a perl person, my understanding of git-svn is limited and the use of --first-parent may not be the right solution to the problem...

 Documentation/git-svn.txt |   10 ++++++++++
 git-svn.perl              |   17 +++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index be2e34e..42d7b82 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -317,6 +317,16 @@ This is only used with the 'dcommit' command.
 Print out the series of git arguments that would show
 which diffs would be committed to SVN.
 
+--first-parent::
+
+This is only used with the 'dcommit', 'rebase', 'log', 'find-rev' and
+'show-ignore' commands.
+
+These commands tries to detect the upstream subversion branch by means of
+the embedded 'git-svn-id' line in commit messages. When --first-parent is
+specified, git-svn only follows the first parent of each commit, effectively
+ignoring commits brought into the current branch through merge-operations.
+
 --
 
 ADVANCED OPTIONS
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index d3c8cd0..d21eb7f 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ my ($_stdin, $_help, $_edit,
 	$_template, $_shared,
 	$_version, $_fetch_all, $_no_rebase,
 	$_merge, $_strategy, $_dry_run, $_local,
-	$_prefix, $_no_checkout, $_verbose);
+	$_prefix, $_no_checkout, $_verbose, $_first_parent);
 $Git::SVN::_follow_parent = 1;
 my %remote_opts = ( 'username=s' => \$Git::SVN::Prompt::_username,
                     'config-dir=s' => \$Git::SVN::Ra::config_dir,
@@ -119,12 +119,15 @@ my %cmd = (
 			  'dry-run|n' => \$_dry_run,
 			  'fetch-all|all' => \$_fetch_all,
 			  'no-rebase' => \$_no_rebase,
+			  'first-parent' => \$_first_parent,
 			%cmt_opts, %fc_opts } ],
 	'set-tree' => [ \&cmd_set_tree,
 	                "Set an SVN repository to a git tree-ish",
 			{ 'stdin|' => \$_stdin, %cmt_opts, %fc_opts, } ],
 	'show-ignore' => [ \&cmd_show_ignore, "Show svn:ignore listings",
-			{ 'revision|r=i' => \$_revision } ],
+			{ 'revision|r=i' => \$_revision,
+			  'first-parent' => \$_first_parent
+			} ],
 	'multi-fetch' => [ \&cmd_multi_fetch,
 	                   "Deprecated alias for $0 fetch --all",
 			   { 'revision|r=s' => \$_revision, %fc_opts } ],
@@ -145,15 +148,19 @@ my %cmd = (
 			  'authors-file|A=s' => \$_authors,
 			  'color' => \$Git::SVN::Log::color,
 			  'pager=s' => \$Git::SVN::Log::pager,
+			  'first-parent' => \$_first_parent
 			} ],
 	'find-rev' => [ \&cmd_find_rev, "Translate between SVN revision numbers and tree-ish",
-			{ } ],
+			{
+			  'first-parent' => \$_first_parent
+			} ],
 	'rebase' => [ \&cmd_rebase, "Fetch and rebase your working directory",
 			{ 'merge|m|M' => \$_merge,
 			  'verbose|v' => \$_verbose,
 			  'strategy|s=s' => \$_strategy,
 			  'local|l' => \$_local,
 			  'fetch-all|all' => \$_fetch_all,
+			  'first-parent' => \$_first_parent,
 			  %fc_opts } ],
 	'commit-diff' => [ \&cmd_commit_diff,
 	                   'Commit a diff between two trees',
@@ -811,7 +818,9 @@ sub cmt_metadata {
 
 sub working_head_info {
 	my ($head, $refs) = @_;
-	my ($fh, $ctx) = command_output_pipe('log', '--no-color', $head);
+	my @args = ('log', '--no-color');
+	push @args, '--first-parent' if $_first_parent;
+	my ($fh, $ctx) = command_output_pipe(@args, $head);
 	my $hash;
 	my %max;
 	while (<$fh>) {
-- 
1.5.3.1.g7e90d-dirty
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  1. git-svn: add support for --first-parentLars Hjemli, Sep 5, 2007
  2. Eric WongSep 5, 2007
  3. Lars HjemliSep 6, 2007
  4. Eric WongSep 6, 2007
  5. David KastrupSep 6, 2007
  6. Lars HjemliSep 6, 2007
  7. git-svn: remove --first-parent, add --upstreamLars Hjemli, Sep 6, 2007
  8. Steven GrimmSep 6, 2007
  9. Eric WongSep 6, 2007
  10. Eric WongSep 6, 2007
  11. Lars HjemliSep 6, 2007
  12. Peter BaumannSep 6, 2007
  13. Lars HjemliSep 7, 2007
  14. Peter BaumannSep 7, 2007
  15. Lars HjemliSep 7, 2007
  16. Peter BaumannSep 7, 2007
  17. Configure mutt to be used in git and lkml mailing lists (was: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: remove --first-parent, add --upstream)Fernando J. Pereda, Sep 7, 2007
  18. Eric WongSep 7, 2007
  19. Lars HjemliSep 15, 2007
  20. Peter BaumannSep 15, 2007
  21. Lars HjemliSep 15, 2007
  22. Peter BaumannSep 15, 2007

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