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Re: "git svn reset" only resets current branch ?

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Jul 6, 2009, 21:29 UTC
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<20090706212928.GA11043@dcvr.yhbt.net>
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<43948.10.0.0.1.1246874857.squirrel@intranet.linagora.com>
Yann Dirson <ydirson@linagora.com> wrote:
> I just tried the new "git svn reset" from master, and got puzzled that
> only the svn branch which is an ancestor of current git HEAD got rolled
> back.  Is that the expected behaviour ?  It would not make it very easy to
> fixup imports from svn trees with lots of branches/tags.

Ben was the original implementer of this idea, so I'm not sure of his reasoning behind it. For one, it's easier to only roll back one svn branch. Perhaps adding an --all flag to this command would be the best way to go?

-- 
Eric Wong
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