From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:55:57 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly
Message-ID: <20060227185557.GA32142@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060227184641.GA21684@hand.yhbt.net>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:46:41AM -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
> > now i am a little confused about that... oh, i actually modified the
> > svn-git directly instead of a private working branch... perhaps that was
> > not intended.
> 
> You should never, ever modify the git-svn-HEAD branch yourself.
> Interface branches should never be modified.  It's the golden rule of
> interfacing between different SCM interfaces.  Sorry, I've been doing
> things like this this for a while now I guess I didn't make it
> abundantly clear in the documentation.

If it is not supposed to be changed by the user, maybe it could be
stored as a tag.

Or maybe another type of reference can be introduced. refs/remote/, for
branches we are tracking, but which should not be modified locally.

Jan