From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:21:00 GMT
Subject: Re: GSOC Proposal draft: git-remote-svn
Message-ID: <20120403222100.GA20252@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4F7B7169.4050507@pileofstuff.org>

Andrew Sayers wrote:

> This is a pretty solid heuristic for detecting branches copied from an
> existing branch even in scheme (2) or (3), but does absolutely nothing
> for trunk detection.  Although trunk detection is trivial in the sane
> case (the "trunk" directory is the one and only trunk, end of story),
> here's a contrived example for why it's hard in the general case:

For the remote helper in its default configuration, I think it's ok to
assume the standard layout (trunk/, branches/*, tags/*).

Thanks for some useful examples.

Sincerely,
Jonathan