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Re: git-svn and local only topic branch

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Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com>
Date
May 3, 2007, 11:24 UTC
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On 5/2/07, Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> wrote:
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> In his reply to my script, Junio correctly pointed out that all this
> fiddling really ought to be happening in git-svn itself; it ought to
> know that you've done a merge and should record that fact directly in
> the metadata for 4' rather than treating it as a single-parent commit.
> If you do the above a zillion times you'll end up with a huge grafts
> file which is not so clean. But as a stopgap measure, this does work
> adequately.
Yes, it's seems just fine. Thanks for the tips.

I'm not aware with the internal Git's features. As grafts seems to be a quick hack, is it posible to imagine that, after git-svn rewrited 4 in 4', an other tool rewrites (completly) the commit to produce a 4" with 2 parents?

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  1. Guilhem BonnefilleMay 1, 2007
  2. Adam RobenMay 1, 2007
  3. Guilhem BonnefilleMay 1, 2007
  4. Andy ParkinsMay 1, 2007
  5. Steven GrimmMay 2, 2007
  6. Guilhem BonnefilleMay 3, 2007

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