Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

From: Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 28, 2012, 10:18 UTC
Message-ID: <E58261F3-F7E6-4F5B-A2D7-71E808EC6071@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121120073153.GA340@localhost>

On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Sebastian Leske <Sebastian.Leske@sleske.name> wrote:

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> Commit graph of git-svn result:
> 
> --follow-parent:               --no-follow-parent:
> 
> 
>       |                               |
>      /|                             | |
>     / |                             | |
>     | |                             | |
>     | |                             | |
>     | |                             | |
>     \ |                             | |
>      \|                             | |
>       |                               | 
> 
> 
> (please excuse cheap ASCII art)
> 
> Is that the only effect of --no-follow-parent? And again, why would I
> want that?

I suppose that you would want this for a SVN repo that holds many different and possibly loosely related projects. The you can apply git filter branch then to split them up cleanly.

e.g. Imagine that the two root commits of the branches do not have true common history.

Steve