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Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-svn: Fix for svn paths removed > log-window-size revisions ago

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
May 10, 2009, 01:32 UTC
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<20090510013211.GB2000@dcvr.yhbt.net>
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<1241641133-6974-1-git-send-email-alexmv@mit.edu>
Alex Vandiver <alexmv@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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> Instead of trying to find the end of the commit history only in the
> last window, track if we have seen commits yet, and use that to judge
> if we need to backtrack and look for a tail.  Otherwise, conversion
> can silently lose up to 100 revisions of a branch if it was deleted
> >100 revisions ago.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Vandiver <alexmv@mit.edu>
Thanks Alex,
This series (and your svn.authorsfile patch)
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
..and pushed out to git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn
-- 
Eric Wong
Previous: Alex Vandiver
Message 3 of 3 in “git-svn: Fix for svn paths removed > log-window-size revisions ago”
  1. 1/2 git-svn: Fix for svn paths removed > log-window-size revisions agoAlex Vandiver, May 6, 2009
  2. 2/2 git-svn: Correctly report max revision when following deleted pathsAlex Vandiver, May 6, 2009
  3. Eric WongMay 10, 2009

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