Re: git svn: Supporting multiple branch subdirs?
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>> (Shouldn't that fetch line be head:refs/remots/head, since there's nothing called
>> "trunk" in the svn repo? I used git-svn init --trunk=head ...)
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> The left hand side of the refspec refers to the svn repo, the right hand
> side only names your local ref. Feel free to put "head" there, although
> this can be confused very easily with "HEAD" which has special meaning
> in git.
Sure. I was mostly wondering why --trunk=head didn't just reuse the name in my local ref. A minor bug, perhaps?
(And the FreeBSD community commonly refers to that branch as "current", so that's a name I can use locally.)
> P.S.: Let me know if you give it a shot, so that we don't duplicate our
> waste of time...
I have some cycles to work on this, but I'd need some guidance around git-svn's internals. I'm not even sure where to start implementing the "branches2" hack you described...
M.
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>