From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:11:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-svn: make rebuild respect rewriteRoot option
Message-ID: <20080624021126.GA31093@kodama.kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080624021736.2d272d9c@neuron>

Jan Krüger wrote:
> Suppose someone fetches git-svn-ified commits from another repo and then
> attempts to use 'git-svn init --rewrite-root=foo bar'. Using git svn rebase
> after that will fail badly:
> 
>  * For each commit tried by working_head_info, rebuild is called indirectly.
>  * rebuild will iterate over all commits and skip all of them because the
>    URL does not match. Because of that no rev_map file is generated at all.
>  * Thus, rebuild will run once for every commit. This takes ages.
>  * In the end there still isn't any rev_map file and thus working_head_info
>    fails.

Very timely, I had just been beating my head against this problem.
Your patch works great for me.

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