Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-svn: Fix the commit-url config to be the base url, just like the url config

> On Apr 4, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> > $_commit_url is a user-specified parameter from the --commit-url switch.
> > If they want to override it it's the user's perogative.  It's not the
> > default and not commonly used.
> 
> In .git/config:
> 
> [svn-remote "svn"]
>         url = http://hostname/svnrepo/
>         commiturl = svn+ssh://hostname/svnrepo
>         branches = branches/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>         fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/origin/master
> 
> The commiturl configuration is necessary so that the canonical URL is the http:// url (which can be used for read-only access), but if you want to commit, you have to use svn+ssh. This is a fairly common way of setting up access to an svn repository, so I'm surprised to be the first one to hit this issue.
> 
> Without the patch, you need:
>         commiturl = svn+ssh://hostname/svnrepo/trunk
> which of course then doesn't allow you to commit to other branches.