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Change in git-svn dcommit semantics?

From
Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 19, 2006, 21:12 UTC
Message-ID
<m2mz5jegka.fsf@ziti.local>
Hi Eric,

I just updated to the latest git/git-svn (on branch 'master') and the workflow I've been using no longer seems to work:

   # review the commits I'm going to send to svn
   ziti:~/proj/bioc-2.0-git seth$ git log remotes/git-svn..HEAD
   
   # now send them
   ziti:~/proj/bioc-2.0-git seth$ git svn dcommit remotes/git-svn..HEAD
   fatal: ambiguous argument
   'refs/remotes/git-svn..remotes/git-svn..HEAD': unknown revision or
   path not in the working tree.  Use '--' to separate paths from
   revisions 32768 at /Users/seth/scm/bin/git-svn line 2190
           main::safe_qx('git-rev-list', '--no-merges', 'refs/remotes/git-svn..remotes/git-svn..HEAD') called at /Users/seth/scm/bin/git-svn line 610
           main::dcommit('remotes/git-svn..HEAD') called at /Users/seth/scm/bin/git-svn line 197

At this point, my last commit seems to have been reset (although the changes are thankfully still in my working tree). If this happens to you, you can recover the last commit like:

  git commit -a -v -c ORIG_HEAD
And it seems that the new interface requires no extra args:
 git svn dcommit
The new interface seems ok until things like 
  git svn dcommit remotes/git-svn..HEAD~2

are allowed (if ever). But it would be nice for the failure mode to not undo commits :-)

+ seth
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  1. Seth FalconDec 19, 2006
  2. Eric WongDec 19, 2006
  3. Seth FalconDec 20, 2006
  4. Brian GernhardtDec 19, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 19, 2006
  6. Brian GernhardtDec 20, 2006
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  11. Jeff KingDec 20, 2006
  12. Brian GernhardtDec 22, 2006
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