From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:20:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?
Message-ID: <20121128212044.GA18206@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121120073153.GA340@localhost>

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.