From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 20:44:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Trying to sync two svn repositories with git-svn (repost)
Message-ID: <32541b130905081344m634a78d5l984f4903ec1515eb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090506225042.GN15420@raven.wolf.lan>

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:
> The svn histories are about 1250 commits each.  The cherry-pickings are
> about 350 commits each.  This gives histories running in parallel for
> long distances.  Add to this gitk's tendency to change lanes at every
> occasion:  There's no chance to get multiple screen shots (the interesting
> branch/merge-points, as I described in the thread referenced above) in
> sync.  There's many opportunities to get confused.  At least for me, as a
> newbie to git.

I agree that gitk's lane-changing can be a bit confusing.  Could you
try making a slightly modified version of your script, where you only
cherry-pick one or two commits in each direction?  That should be
functionally identical, but a much simpler diagram.

Avery