From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 01:37:42 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn master pointing to commit for older svn tag?
Message-ID: <20090510013742.GC2000@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <2729632a0905061459v6c257b3ay60e1f454e8f2bb4a@mail.gmail.com>

skillzero@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm using git svn to sync to a Subversion repository and it generally
> works, but somehow, it seems to have gotten into a state where master
> is pointing to the commit for an old svn tag rather than to the svn
> trunk so 'git svn rebase' never does anything.
> 
> If I look in .git/info/refs, I see that refs/heads/master is pointing
> to the commit for a specific tag and I can change to point to
> something else, but I'm wondering how it got into this state and if
> there's a better way to tell git svn to go back to using the svn trunk
> so future rebases work correctly?

You can use "git rebase refs/remotes/trunk" on any working tree
to reapply your current work against trunk.  "git svn rebase"
just uses "git rebase" internally anyways.

-- 
Eric Wong