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Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

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EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Nov 28, 2012, 21:20 UTC
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Sebastian Leske <Sebastian.Leske@sleske.name> wrote:
> However, this does not make sense to me: This sounds like there is no
> good reason *not* to enable this option.  So why is it there? And in
> what situation might I want to use "--no-follow-parent"?

Speed. Following long/convoluted histories can take a long time. Sometimes the user doesn't care about ancient history.

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