Re: git-svn and mergeinfo

From: Bryan Jacobs <bjacobs@woti.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2011, 13:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20110906095256.205dd5d0@robyn.woti.com>
In-Reply-To: <1315313800.9839.10.camel@bee.lab.cmartin.tk>

On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:56:38 +0200 Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> wrote:

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> You can also save the mergeinfo to a file, add the line, and use
> --mergeinfo=$(cat /tmp/some-file) to set it. It is indeed awkward, but
> blindly replacing every space with a newline is not always the right
> option. If a merged directory contains a space, this change will break
> the mergeinfo, even if you're properly quoting your variable or using
> the $(cat /some/file) method.
> 
> Cheers,
>    cmn

Ah, a situation I neglected to consider! Perhaps we should revert this patch, since I worked up the initiative to write an auto-populating-mergeinfo patch for git-svn anyhow.

Bryan Jacobs