From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:12:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svnimport: Improved detection of merges.
Message-ID: <7vlkshs618.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <11490715283626-git-send-email-octo@verplant.org>

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?