From: pacco@tropezien.de
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:08:12 GMT
Subject: Re: How to get rid of doubled branch after renaming a branch in svn-repository
Message-ID: <35e60ee2f6d83801d130d53a56a8ae18@tropezien.de>
In-Reply-To: <4CF6553C.70500@drmicha.warpmail.net>

 Hi Michael,

 On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:01:32 +0100, Michael J Gruber 
 <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
 [snipped]
> svn records the rename as a copy+delete (it also sets some rename 
> info
> which git-svn seems to ignore). So, git-svn stays on the safe side by
> keeping the branch. Note that deleting the branch would possibly 
> delete
> at least some info since the branch name is not recorded in the 
> commit
> (if you use svn.noMetadata).
>
> You can safely delete the branch if you're sure its head commit is
> contained in some other branch (as will be for an ordinary rename).

 thank you for your explanation. I suspected that this issue might be a 
 mixture of different VCS-philosophy and uncertainty-handling.
 Okay, then I will delete the branch manually. Of course I would have 
 preferred to have an automatic solution, because I got attention on this 
 renaming by accident. I hope renaming a branch will not become a new 
 trend in repository actions.

 pacco