Re: git-svn stubbornly re-creating branch "master"

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mar 29, 2009, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20090329222827.GA32199@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090329171347.GA26866@beczulka>

Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> I created my git repository by cloning it with git-svn from an upstream SVN
> repository. When I did that, a branch "master" was created. Afterwards I
> renamed that branch to "upstream". However every time I "git-svn fetch", it
> recreates the "master" branch, pointing it at the newest upstream commit.
> 
> Ideally, I'd like it to just forget about "master" and do the same to my
> "upstream" branch. Is it possible?
> 
> If not, then is it at least possible to have it not recreate the "master"
> branch? It clutters my view.

"master" has been a git convention since the earliest days of git and it's less confusing to new users following documentation if it always exists (and a lot of users' first git experience is with git svn).

Why not just use "master" as one of your branches? It won't bite you. "git svn fetch" will never clobber your "master" if it already exists.

-- 
Eric Wong