Re: git-svn clone duplicates content

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Mar 13, 2008, 11:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20080313113621.GA13221@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080313113013.GA31522@atjola.homenet>

also sprach Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> [2008.03.13.1230 +0100]:

> The "fetch" part of git-svn will create a master branch if it
> doesn't exist(*) and makes it point to whatever branch was last
> fetched. In your case, it seems that the last change on the svn
> side was to create tag 0.4-5, so master pointed to that one.

That makes sense.

> As things are, a "git reset --hard remotes/trunk" (or wherever you
> want your master to descend from) is pretty mandatory after git
> svn clone. The example in the man page "kind of" mentions that.
> ;-)

I saw that a bit later too. Thanks for the explanation regardless!

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