From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 09:44:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn dcommit <branch> committed to trunk anyway
Message-ID: <87txzsba0o.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CAH3AnroP+ckzgijibPDEupBCfUFu5Bwsq8YP58h+igXoJyJEyg@mail.gmail.com>

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

> I expected git svn dcommit <branch> to push commits into the svn
> branch called <branch> (a repo relative URL of
> /branches/foobar1/foobar2/<branch>)
>
> However, it decided to push into trunk instead, which was not the
> intended effect.
>
> What have I misunderstood about how git svn dcommit is supposed to work?

Did the commits you dcommitted have any git-svn-id lines?  It dcommits
(or at least it's supposed to :-) in the directory listed in the
git-svn-id line found by (roughly)

  git log --first-parent -1 --grep=^git-svn-id:

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