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Re: git-svn rebase screwing up commit messages

From
Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date
Jul 28, 2007, 12:35 UTC
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<20070728083536.540e471d.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:14:26 -0700 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

Hi,
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> Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
> 
> > git version 1.5.2.3 over here, I've googled and searched in the ML
> > archives but did not find this:  when I git-svn rebase, my commits in
> > Git (that are temporarily removed and then re-applied) get their
> > commit message flattened on a single line...
> 
> Do you mean by "my commits in Git" a commit you created with git
> in your git repository?
> 

Tested this here (rc3.24.g83b3d) and can confirm the reported problem. After making a commit in git and then running "git svn rebase" to receive updates from the svn repo, the rebased commit has a borked description (multi-lined commit message appears all on one line).

Sean
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Message 3 of 18 in “git-svn rebase screwing up commit messages”
  1. Benoit SIGOUREJul 28, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2007
  3. SeanJul 28, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2007
  5. SeanJul 28, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2007
  7. SeanJul 28, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2007
  10. 1/3 log_ref_write() -- do not chomp reflog message at the first LFJunio C Hamano, Jul 29, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 29, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2007
  13. Johannes SchindelinJul 29, 2007
  14. 2/3 symbolic-ref, update-ref: do not refuse reflog message with LFJunio C Hamano, Jul 29, 2007
  15. 3/3 rebase: try not to munge commit log messageJunio C Hamano, Jul 29, 2007
  16. Jakub NarebskiJul 28, 2007
  17. Robin RosenbergJul 28, 2007
  18. Benoit SIGOUREJul 28, 2007

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