From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:37:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [GIT-SVN] master follows not trunk
Message-ID: <20090423183705.GB17467@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90904220821u3dae67d7jcb6366d7a95dfbd1@mail.gmail.com>

Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it seams so, that git-svn sets the master branch to that svn branch
> which has the highest revision!
> 
> I cloned a svn repo today where exactly this happend. I.e. master
> pointed not to the trunk but to the branch with the highest revision.
> After trunk moved forward, a git svn rebase told me that master is up
> to date.
> 
> A second clean clone of this repo and master pointed to trunk.
> 
> Is this indented?

Yes it was intended.  It was once the case that several repositories I
tracked had work done almost exclusively in branches and trunk could've
been months/years behind and worthless.

However, this issue has come up many times now so maybe setting
master==trunk if trunk exists (sometimes it does not)...

Any objections?

-- 
Eric Wong