From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:48:12 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn rebase screwing up commit messages
Message-ID: <200707282148.13751.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5skps1g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

lördag 28 juli 2007 skrev Junio C Hamano:
> Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> >> Having said all that, so that the readers understand the
> >> background, here is a not-so-heavily-tested patch, which might
> >> help.  It passes all the test suite as before, but that tells
> >> how existing git-svn tests do not test many things.
> >> 
> >> I am not considering this for inclusion right now, by the way.
> >
> > FWIW your patch fixed my test case here.
> 
> Actually the patched behaviour actively encourages a bad (not in
> the sense that those oneline tools will not work well, but in
> the sense that these messages are reader unfriendly) practice; I
> do not think what the patch did deserves to be called "fixed".

git-svn should not enforce git conventions when managing commits
intended for svn. Those commits should obviously follow the conventions
for the target (svn) repo. 

-- robin