From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:46:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch)
Message-ID: <AANLkTik-OAZWBkKM1zNyeZpC6K4ZjvF8WfXOJrNkXayt@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101018163836.GI22376@kytes>

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