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Re: git-svn with ignore-paths misses/skips some revisions during fetch

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Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz>
Date
Nov 10, 2012, 07:57 UTC
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>         The problem is that the 'ignore-paths' approach sometimes
>         misses commits during a fetch, and then at some later time
>         will "realize" it and squash those changes onto some other,
>         unrelated commit.  (I've never seen this happen with the
>         per-subdir 'fetch' approach.)  Here are three commits in
>         SVN:

Could it be that certain files spent parts of their historical lifetime inside the ignored paths ?

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  1. McHenry, MattNov 8, 2012
  2. Enrico WeigeltNov 10, 2012
  3. McHenry, MattNov 12, 2012

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