# [GIT-SVN] master follows not trunk

4 messages from 2009-04-22 to 2009-04-23. Participants: Bert Wesarg, Deskin Miller, Eric Wong, Pascal Obry.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19004

## Bert Wesarg, 2009-04-22 15:21

Subject: [GIT-SVN] master follows not trunk
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Hi,

it seams so, that git-svn sets the master branch to that svn branch
which has the highest revision!

I cloned a svn repo today where exactly this happend. I.e. master
pointed not to the trunk but to the branch with the highest revision.
After trunk moved forward, a git svn rebase told me that master is up
to date.

A second clean clone of this repo and master pointed to trunk.

Is this indented?

Bert

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## Deskin Miller, 2009-04-23 05:56

Subject: Re: [GIT-SVN] master follows not trunk
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:21, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seams so, that git-svn sets the master branch to that svn branch
> which has the highest revision!
>
> I cloned a svn repo today where exactly this happend. I.e. master
> pointed not to the trunk but to the branch with the highest revision.
> After trunk moved forward, a git svn rebase told me that master is up
> to date.
>
> A second clean clone of this repo and master pointed to trunk.
>
> Is this indented?

It's well-known, at any rate, and it's somewhat conceptually
consistent with git, which will use the remote's HEAD for its
currently-checked-out branch upon clone.

Consider also that although your svn repository is well-formed and has
trunk/ tags/ branches/, not all do; or, perhaps someone is interested
in only one branch, or put multiple svn-remote.svn.fetch lines in
.git/config before fetching.  Which svn branch should become master
then?

With that said, you're not the first person to be surprised by this;
I'm sure you could patch git svn to tell you which svn branch it was
checking out.  It'd probably be a pretty simple tweak, but
unfortunately I'm not in a position to do it currently.

Deskin Miller

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## Eric Wong, 2009-04-23 18:37

Subject: Re: [GIT-SVN] master follows not trunk
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Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it seams so, that git-svn sets the master branch to that svn branch
> which has the highest revision!
> 
> I cloned a svn repo today where exactly this happend. I.e. master
> pointed not to the trunk but to the branch with the highest revision.
> After trunk moved forward, a git svn rebase told me that master is up
> to date.
> 
> A second clean clone of this repo and master pointed to trunk.
> 
> Is this indented?

Yes it was intended.  It was once the case that several repositories I
tracked had work done almost exclusively in branches and trunk could've
been months/years behind and worthless.

However, this issue has come up many times now so maybe setting
master==trunk if trunk exists (sometimes it does not)...

Any objections?

-- 
Eric Wong

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## Pascal Obry, 2009-04-23 19:38

Subject: Re: [GIT-SVN] master follows not trunk
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Eric,

> However, this issue has come up many times now so maybe setting
> master==trunk if trunk exists (sometimes it does not)...
> 
> Any objections?

I think it is a good idea as this would be just right in most cases.

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