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Re: git-svn: Finding the svn-URL of the current branch in git

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 8, 2007, 09:13 UTC
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Matthias Kleine <matthias_kleine@gmx.de> writes:
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> Peter Baumann wrote:
>>
>> I had this situation, too.
>>
>>
>> 			a = svn branch 'a'
>> 	  m		b = svn branch 'b' (in my case, it was trunk)
>>       /   \		m = a merge of branch 'a' and 'b', not yet commited to svn
>>      a     b
>>
>> So trying to dcommit m, git svn can't figure out on which branch, as 'a'
>> and 'b' are both reachable. I had to use a graft file to lose one of the
>> parents, which let git-svn commit to SVN.
>
> You're right, both 'a' and 'b' are reachable from 'm'.  But if I got
> it right 'm' also contains information as to which one is the first
> parent and thereby which branch we're on. So wouldn't it be enough, if
> git-svn automatically chose the first parent (using log
> --first-parent)?

Parents' order and which branch you are on may not have anything to do with each other. Somebody else may have pulled a while on b, and you might have pulled from him the merge he created by doing so while you are on branch a.

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  1. Matthias KleineAug 7, 2007
  2. Peter BaumannAug 7, 2007
  3. Matthias KleineAug 8, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2007
  5. Matthias KleineAug 8, 2007
  6. Peter BaumannAug 8, 2007
  7. Peter BaumannAug 8, 2007
  8. Eric WongAug 16, 2007
  9. Peter BaumannAug 16, 2007
  10. Eric WongAug 17, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2007
  12. Eric WongAug 18, 2007
  13. David KastrupAug 18, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 18, 2007
  15. Karl HasselströmAug 18, 2007

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