From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:35:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: handle our top-level path is deleted and later re-added
Message-ID: <20071215163503.GA25053@xp.machine.xx>
In-Reply-To: <20071214163909.GA18300@soma>

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:39:09AM -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
> Previously, git-svn would ignore cases where the path we're
> tracking is removed from the repository.  This was to prevent
> heads with follow-parent from ending up with a tree full of
> empty revisions (and thus breaking rename detection).
> 
> The previous behavior is fine until the path we're tracking
> is re-added later on, leading to the old files being merged
> in with the new files in the directory (because the old
> files were never marked as deleted)
> 
> We will now only remove all the old files locally that were
> deleted remotely iff we detect the directory we're in is being
> created from scratch.
> 
> Thanks for Marcus D. Hanwell for the bug report and
> Peter Baumann for the analysis.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
[...]

It seems to solve the problem seen in the avogadro repo. At least
the suspicious revisions I checked looked identical in the imported
version.

-Peter