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Re: git-svn stubbornly re-creating branch "master"

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MMMikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 3, 2009, 10:57 UTC
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2009/3/29 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>:
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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 18:13:47 +0100, Marcin Owsiany
> <porridge@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> As you can see, "master" sprang back to life after the last command.
>
> It looks like git-svn does not like a repo without 'master'. It seems
> the problem was caused by this patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=1e889ef36c45b5554f7e317493ed3f4f901f8d9f
>
> I have added Eric to CC...

Why not just check if HEAD points to a valid commit, rather than master? It should do the same in the newly created repo case, and stop annoying people on updates.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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Message 3 of 10 in “git-svn stubbornly re-creating branch "master"”
  1. Marcin OwsianyMar 29, 2009
  2. Dmitry PotapovMar 29, 2009
  3. Mikael MagnussonApr 3, 2009
  4. Marcin OwsianyJun 6, 2009
  5. Marcin OwsianyJun 14, 2009
  6. Andreas EricssonJun 14, 2009
  7. Marcin OwsianyJun 14, 2009
  8. Eric WongMar 29, 2009
  9. David KågedalApr 3, 2009
  10. Marcin OwsianyApr 3, 2009

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