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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Remove mentions of git-svnimport.

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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2008, 00:57 UTC
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On Jul 29, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Pieter de Bie wrote:
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> On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
>
>> +respository.  'git-svn' is especially useful when it comes to  
>> tracking
>> +repositories not organized in the way Subversion developers  
>> recommend
>> +(trunk, branches, tags directories).
>
> This is of course not true. Git svn is especially useful when  
> branches _are_ organized
> that way, but other configurations are somewhat supported. This  
> comment still refers
> to the comparison with svnimport.

The original statement was in a paragraph by itself, so I assumed it was a not a comparison. Reading it again, I can see your point.

~~ Brian
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