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git-svn writing mergeinfo

From
Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2010, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID
<20100211111007.b04e8f26.stephen@exigencecorp.com>
Hi,

I just stumbled across the mergeinfo support coming in git 1.7. Looks like very awesome stuff for those of us using git as a better-than-svn svn client.

Trying 1.7-rc2 locally, I can see mergeinfo properties getting read.

But the killer feature of doing a git merge --no-ff/git svn dcommit doesn't seem to generate and write mergeinfo properties back to svn. Unless I'm doing something wrong.

Are there any plans for this, even if svn's model means only in a limited form? E.g. no multi-parent/reflective/etc.

I was really surprised to learn that Bazaar writes mergeinfo back to svn [1]--I had assumed a DAG-based DVCS would just never get that good of svn interop. So, seeing that Bazaar does something like this gives me hope that git could do it eventually as well.

Thanks, Stephen

[1]: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrForeignBranches/Subversion
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  1. Stephen HabermanFeb 11, 2010

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