From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 20:01:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-svn: New flag to add a file in empty directories
Message-ID: <20110518200139.GB10697@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimGrkL2KjGC652tr3=Y0h02C_fzaQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ray Chen <rchen@cs.umd.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> >
> >> 4. If it is a goal to support long-term tracking of a Subversion
> >> repository, then it would be good to add a config option to turn on this
> >> feature permanently for a git-svn repository, so that the user doesn't
> >> have to enter the extra options with each command invocation.
> >
> > Command-line options should be automatically converted into config file
> > options inside git svn.  We should however discourage this from getting
> > mixed...
> >
> I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Do you mean that options
> shouldn't be settable both on the command line and the config file?  I
> think this situation already exists with the --no-metadata option.

git-svn automatically understands configuration options based on the
command-line options (see sub read_get_config).

-- 
Eric Wong