git-svn and local only topic branch
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Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com>
- Date
- May 1, 2007, 16:40 UTC
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- <8b65902a0705010940pb3bfb16u624d470068351624@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
I'm using Git as a SVN frontend (via git-svn). Recently, I made a topic branch, I did some job on it and wish to "upload" my work (on the SVN). But, I do not want "pushing" all commits, I only want to create a single commit on the SVN, while keeping full commits on my Git repo. But I did not find how to do this.
Here my story. Let's call "upstream" the local branch connected to the SVN, the raw SVN mirror branch is remotes/upstream. Now, I create a branch "topic" from "upstream" and I do job:
o--o--o (upstream, remotes/upstream)
\
o--o--o--o (topic)I want the following result:
o--o--o-------------- o (upstream, remotes/upstream)
\ /
o--o--o--o (topic)So I did "git-merge "Merge" upstream topic". But, the merge action decided to do a fast-forward. It's not correct because I really don't want to "pollute" the SVN with all my commits.
So I rewinded and I did "git-merge --squash "Merge" upstream topic". This time, it seems to work as I obtained a single commit on upstream branch. But this commit does not have ancestry link with the topic branch. Here is it:
o--o--o--o (upstream, remotes/upstream)
\
o--o--o--o (topic)Is there a way to do what I want?
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