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Re: [RFC] git-svn: make git-svn commit-diff able to work without explicit arguments

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Jan 2, 2007, 19:18 UTC
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<20070102191810.GA18856@localdomain>
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<459AA31E.5070705@gmail.com>
Steve Fr?cinaux <nudrema@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> When using git-svn to access a SVN repo, the commit policy may vary. 
> While git makes you commit small patches often, svn users tend to prefer 
> bigger patches that implement a functionnality at once.
> 
> So at the end you have a SVN commit which corresponds to several git ones.
> 
> What you can do in this case is :
> 
>   git-svn commit-diff --edit -r$REV remotes/git-svn HEAD
> 
> Which effect is that it commits (at once) all the commits between the 
> latest svn fetch and HEAD.
> 
> What I'm proposing here is this:
> 
>  - use the latest fetched rev the default for the -r argument.
Yes, this is very important.
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>  - use remotes/git-svn and HEAD the defaults for the treeish objects.
> 
> A smarter way to take these defaults would be to take the last revision 
> in the current branch (which can be something else than git-svn if it 
> wasn't rebased/merged recently) and the relevant commit in the current 
> branch.
> 
> Additionnaly, --edit could be enabled by default if -m is not set and it 
> is used interactively, eventually using an option in repo-config.

This sounds useful. This is basically what 'set-tree' (the command formerly known as 'commit') was meant to do originally. Unlike set-tree (or perhaps with modifying set-tree), this should rebase or reset afterwards to linearize history like 'dcommit'.

-- 
Eric Wong
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Message 3 of 10 in “[RFC] git-svn: make git-svn commit-diff able to work without explicit arguments”
  1. Steve FrécinauxJan 2, 2007
  2. [RFC] Re: git-svn: make git-svn commit-diff able to work without explicit argumentsPierre Habouzit, Jan 2, 2007
  3. Eric WongJan 2, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2007
  5. [RFC] Re: git-svn: make git-svn commit-diff able to work without explicit argumentsPierre Habouzit, Jan 2, 2007
  6. Brian GernhardtJan 2, 2007
  7. Jakub NarebskiJan 2, 2007
  8. [RFC] Re: git-svn: make git-svn commit-diff able to work without explicit argumentsPierre Habouzit, Jan 2, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2007
  10. Steve FrécinauxJan 2, 2007

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