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Re: git-svn and repository hierarchy?

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PHPeter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date
Feb 27, 2009, 18:11 UTC
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Josef Wolf wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:02:45PM -0500, Peter Harris wrote:
>
>> No need to coordinate clones, aside from each clone
>> needing to know how to work in a "commits will be rebased by upstream"
>> type of environment (which isn't unique to git-svn).
>
> Hmm, what does that exactly mean?  Chances are that the reason for my
> problem is that _I_ am the one who don't know that...

See, for example, http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/8/23/3056824 and surrounding thread.

The consensus is "Pester upstream until they stop rebasing". Unfortunately, Subversion is an application, not a human, so your pleas will go unheard. :-) The rest of that thread contains hints for working with a rebasing upstream.

git-svn will actually never rebase anything once it is in Subversion. So, for example, when they say 'linux-next' in that thread, you could read "any branch that isn't in Subversion yet", since you know that branch will be rebased at least once.

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>> Oh, and make sure
>> you're using a recent git; older git-svn didn't have the incremental
>> index rebuild.
>
> jw@raven:/home/jw> git --version
> git version 1.6.0.2
> jw@raven:/home/jw>
>
> Is that OK?

2beec8973 is the commit in question. Unless I'm mistaken, it first appeared in 1.6.1.0, so you may want to upgrade each cloneN to at least 1.6.1.

Peter Harris
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  1. Josef WolfFeb 24, 2009
  2. Michael J GruberFeb 25, 2009
  3. Josef WolfFeb 25, 2009
  4. Peter HarrisFeb 26, 2009
  5. Josef WolfFeb 27, 2009
  6. Peter HarrisFeb 27, 2009
  7. Josef WolfFeb 27, 2009
  8. Peter HarrisFeb 28, 2009
  9. Josef WolfFeb 27, 2009
  10. Michael J GruberFeb 27, 2009
  11. Josef WolfFeb 27, 2009
  12. Michael J GruberFeb 28, 2009
  13. Josef WolfMar 3, 2009
  14. Peter HarrisMar 3, 2009
  15. Josef WolfMar 3, 2009
  16. Peter HarrisMar 4, 2009
  17. Josef WolfMar 4, 2009
  18. Peter HarrisMar 4, 2009
  19. Josef WolfMar 5, 2009
  20. Peter HarrisMar 5, 2009
  21. Josef WolfMar 6, 2009
  22. Peter HarrisMar 6, 2009
  23. Josef WolfMar 6, 2009
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