From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 12:16:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn dcommit <branch> committed to trunk anyway
Message-ID: <87havs6v9s.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CAH3Anrq5SGZZsTpKd1MFBRVD8xzsUvckt6d-BxtTYYce--F1+g@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:

> I guess I am confused by this guidance in git-svn(1) in the section on dcommit:
>
>     "An optional revision or branch argument may be specified, and
> causes git svn to do all work on that revision/branch instead of
> HEAD":
>
> I had assumed that dcommit would respect the optional (SVN branch)
> argument that I had specified, but it seems that this is not the case.
> What do the words in the man page actually mean, if they don't mean
> what I thought they meant.  Do the words "optional revision or branch"
> actually refer to the git commit/branch rather than the SVN
> revision/branch?

Oh, now I understand.  Yes, specifying a revision C there acts mostly as
if you said

  git checkout C^0
  git svn dcommit
  git checkout -

(IIRC, I haven't used it in a while).

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch