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Re: Git and svn as target

From
PBPeter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date
Jun 10, 2010, 06:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20100610060525.GA2177@m62s10.vlinux.de>
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<4C107BEB.6020209@fechner.net>
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:45:15AM +0200, Matthias Fechner wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> i started now to work with git instead of svn. The main repository
> is a svn repo so i use git svn ...
> 
> But I have the problem now, commit comments are not transfered to
> svn, maybe I miss here a parameter.
> 
> What i did:
> git svn fetch
> git svn rebase
> git branch test
> git checkout test
> several commits
> git checkout master
> git svn fetch
> git svn rebase
> git merge test
> git svn dcommit
> 
> In the commit of svn I see only merged test...
> Could I say git to put all the commit comments into the merge?
>

AFAIK git svn doesn't handle git merges very well. If you rebase your test branch onto master and then do the git-svn dcommit, everything should work as expected.

-Peter
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