From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:27:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn fetch updating master
Message-ID: <20070816082706.GA29521@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070816080349.GA16849@muzzle>

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:03:49AM -0700, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was wondering why the master branch was hardcoded to be updated in
> > post_fetch_checkout() in git-svn. Why not allow to use another branch ?
> 
> It shouldn't update master if it the branch already exists and is a
> valid ref.
> 
> The default for git-clone is to create "master", too, so I wanted
> git-svn clone behavior to be the same.

git-svn fetch is not only invoqued at cloning time...

My problem is that I (purposely) removed the master branch, so git-svn fetch
is creating it again every time I run to update the svn branch...

Mike