From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:42:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Git SVN Rebranching Issue
Message-ID: <20081104094224.GC24100@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081104084111.GB14405@untitled>

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:41:11AM -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
> 
> Short answer: you can use grafts to remove parents.

Using grafts requires some cautious, especially when it is used to make
some commits unreachable, because git gc can remove unreachable commits.
Also, a repository with grafts cannot be cloned.  So using grafts looks
like more as workaround rather a real solution.

> 
> It was actually an intentional design decision on my part preserve
> parents based on branch name.  We would eventually otherwise lose
> history of the now-deleted branches, as reflogs can expire.

Would it not be better to save the old branch using "@SVN-NUMBER" as
suffix? Thus, those do not need the old branch can easily delete it.


Dmitry