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Re: [PATCH] git-svnimport: Improved detection of merges.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jun 1, 2006, 07:12 UTC
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Florian Forster <octo@verplant.org> writes:
> The regexes detecting merges (while still relying on the commit messages,
> though) have been improved to catch saner (and hopefully more) messages. The
> old regex was so generic that it often matched something else and missed the
> actual merge-message.
> Also, the regex given with the `-M' commandline-option is checked first:
> Explicitely given regexes should be considered better than the builtin ones,
> and should therefore be given a chance to match a message first.

The latter part sounds immensely sane. The former I am not a good judge, since I do not interact with subversion repositories myself. Opinions from real svn users?

BTW, did anybody received the latest "What's in git.git" I sent out about 20 minutes ago?

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  1. Junio C HamanoJun 1, 2006
  2. Eric WongJun 1, 2006
  3. Florian ForsterJun 1, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 1, 2006

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