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Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch)

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 18, 2010, 16:46 UTC
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Heya,
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:38, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me guess: you're targeting git-svn like functionality with all the
> dcommit/ rebase ugliness? I'm looking for a slightly nicer way, not
> too much more; (I) is just a sort of "ideal" target- it's just nice to
> think about it that way. It's needn't be entirely realistic.

I'm thinking we can just refuse to let through a commit that is non-linear, as if there's a hook on the server side that rejects such a history. Since we're representing the svn remote as a regular remote, the user can just do 'git rebase @{u}" themselves if they end up with a non-linear history.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  2. Stephen BashOct 13, 2010
  3. Matt StumpOct 13, 2010
  4. Stephen BashOct 13, 2010
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  6. Jonathan NiederOct 14, 2010
  7. Sverre RabbelierOct 14, 2010
  8. Stephen BashOct 15, 2010
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