From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:56:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: allow to specify svn branch for commands
Message-ID: <20070605095624.GA32225@muzzle>
In-Reply-To: <1181017002.27463.3.camel@megatron>

Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org> wrote:
> 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?

Probably.  --track didn't exist when "git-svn dcommit" was written
and I didn't even know about it until now.  Needless to say,
not everybody uses or knows about it, but it would probably be
a good option to add to git-svn.

-- 
Eric Wong