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Re: [PATCH v2] git-svn: clarify the referent of dcommit's optional argument

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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May 15, 2012, 15:22 UTC
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> The only reason why the original is not ordered that way, as far as I can
>> tell, is because "It is recommended that" was part of an existing paragraph
>> when dd31da2 (git-svn: allow dcommit to take an alternate head, 2006-12-12)
>> added "An optional ...", so it was tucked after existing paragraph without
>> reading the resulting whole to see if "at the very end" was the best place.
>
> Re-reading this, I don't think the advice:
>
>     "It is recommended that you run 'git svn' fetch and rebase (not
>     pull or merge) your commits against the latest changes in the =C2=A0SVN
>     repository."
>
> really belongs in the description of dcommit at all.
I tend to agree.  Opinions from git-svn experts?
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  1. git-svn: clarify the referent of dcommit's optional argumentJon Seymour, May 14, 2012
  2. Jon SeymourMay 14, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2012
  4. Jon SeymourMay 15, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2012
  6. Eric WongMay 16, 2012
  7. Thomas RastMay 18, 2012

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