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Re: git-svn breaks svn when adding .svn

From
FDFrederik Dohr <f.n.dohr@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 16, 2008, 16:09 UTC
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<200806161603.05166.thomas@koch.ro>
> I've reported the exact same problem on 18.04.08 under the subject: "git svn
> should refuse to checkin .svn directories"

Sorry about that - I did search the archives before having this posted, but that didn't come up with anything (the search functionality is quite limited though).

>> [...] Add this as the
>> pre-commit hook in .git/hooks (make sure to make it executable).

Not a bad idea - but this still requires manual intervention (and thus awareness), which doesn't solve the potential destructiveness of this issue.

> The Git website seems to be currently down, but one of us should search, if
> there is a Bugtracker for GIT and then open an issue for this.

The website is up again. However, there doesn't seem to be a dedicated bug tracking tool.

-- F.
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