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

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually I do.  A major, if not primary, selling point of
>> git-svn has been that svn cannot do merges but if you import to
>> git you can, and I've had an impression that Sam's git-svn intro
>> alludes to this capability as well.
>
> Wow.  My primary reasons for git-svn are completely different: speed
> and offline usability; and merging was not so much a concern for me.
>
>> If I understand you correctly, your position is that the svn side
>> has the authoritative history when using git-svn, and we should
>> refuse to do anything on the git side that the resulting history in
>> svn cannot represent.  I know and respect that you have thought
>> about the issues involved long enough before that declaration of
>> defeat, but at the same time, I would really hope that we can come
>> up with a workable compromise to allow merge tracking on the git
>> side.
>
> Yes.  From what I gather, developers only use git-svn because they
> don't have enough swing within their group to replace SVN.