Re: [PATCH] Teach git-svn how to catch up with its tracking branches

From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: May 8, 2008, 02:17 UTC
Message-ID: <2F346570-C474-49A2-AB38-4D64792D1DB0@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v63tpd0fj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On May 7, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Being able to have a shared git-svn managed git repository that  
> mirrors
> svn is something people have asked often enough, but the recommended
> practice has always been for each to have his own copy.

Which is still sort of the case here -- it would be even better if you could share the revision map, but that's a bigger change. All this really does is let you skip talking to the svn server for update operations.

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> Although I do not use git-svn heavily myself, I like this addition.   
> We
> would probably want to update the in-tree doc to cover a recommended
> pattern of interacting multiple git repositories with a single svn
> repository on the other side?

I'll write something up. This is still pretty new (it was an itch I had time to scratch today) so I honestly don't know yet what the optimal workflow is going to be. But at the very least I can document my setup as an example of something that works.

-Steve