Re: GSoC 2010

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2010, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1002120841o71651f82h782eab46206df402@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1002120923060.14365@iabervon.org>

Heya,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 17:10, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

> Also note that the current helper protocol is definitely insufficient to
> replace git-svn ('export' isn't actually specified, although I think
> everyone who guesses how it works guesses the same thing),

I've finally started implementing this yesterday.

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> and the
> transport code needs to be extended to handle the "dcommit" situation
> (when you push a commit, the state that you see on the remote changes
> based on the semantics of what you sent, but it does not change to have
> the same hash as what you pushed).

So basically what you want to do is after you push, automagically do a 'git reset --hard @{u}'? That could be handled by a specific response from the helper to the 'export'/'push' command, perhaps it could list which refs need to be updated?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier