Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-svn: New flag to add a file in empty directories

From: Ray Chen <rchen@cs.umd.edu>
Date: May 18, 2011, 10:59 UTC
Message-ID: <BANLkTimGrkL2KjGC652tr3=Y0h02C_fzaQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110518083314.GA22204@dcvr.yhbt.net>

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

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>> 4. If it is a goal to support long-term tracking of a Subversion
>> repository, then it would be good to add a config option to turn on this
>> feature permanently for a git-svn repository, so that the user doesn't
>> have to enter the extra options with each command invocation.
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> Command-line options should be automatically converted into config file
> options inside git svn.  We should however discourage this from getting
> mixed...
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean that options shouldn't be settable both on the command line and the config file? I think this situation already exists with the --no-metadata option.

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>> 6. Documentation patches would also be required.
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> Agreed, along with automated test cases.
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No problem. Might take a while, though. I haven't looked at the test case system yet.

- Ray