Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch)

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2010, 14:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20101020140511.GA13315@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <1287563970.2673.12.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>

Hi Will,

Will Palmer writes:

> It's been a while since I was involved in this discussion, so maybe the
> design has changed by now,

Yep, and I'm to blame for that- sorry I didn't CC you earlier. I got confused between "Tomas Carnecky" and "Will Palmer". To avoid this confusion in future, I'd request everyone to display the names they use on the list in the IRC whois information (unless it's a privacy issue).

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> but I was under the impression that there
> would be one "one-to-one" mapping branch (which would never be checked
> out), containing the history of /, and that the "real" git branches,
> tags, etc, would be based on the trees originally referenced by the root
> checkout, with git-notes (or similar) being used to track the weirdness
> in mappings. How does the "multiple branches touched in a single commit"
> complicate anything other than the heuristics for automatic branch
> detection (which I assume nobody is at the stage of talking about yet).

Yeah, that was my plan too originally, but I clearly haven't thought about it enough. I'm currently noting down the various scenarios that the others are quoting -- there are quite a few I hadn't thought about earlier.

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-- Ram