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[Git-SVN] Manage merges bewteen remote branches. git-svn or svn?

Subject: [Git-SVN] Manage merges bewteen remote branches. git-svn or svn?

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Daniele Segato· Feb 23, 2010, 11:58 UTC · lore

I'm trying to understand the best way to deal with remote branches merging in git-svn.

This is the situation (more or less) that I had to manage:

master: tracking remote svn trunk v1.x: tracking remote svn branches/v1.x

at the moment v1.x just branched from trunk
master
    |
    |
    |
    |   v1.x
    |  /
    | /
    |/
branch point

now i should start to merge into v1.x the work from trunk/master. some of the last commit on master will be left there for later merging.

so i branched from master~10 (example) and cherry-picket the commit i want to put into

I see three root from now on and no one i really like: 1. git checkout v1.x git merge --squash myTemporaryBranch

this way it's ok the first time but i'll have a lot of conflict later when i will do (again): git merge --squash master

2. git checkout v1.x # this will not work because of the svnid: #git rebase myTemporaryBranch

so I did:
for commit in `git rev-list --reverse --cherry-pick
v1.x..myTemporaryBranch`; do
    git cherry-pick-svn $commit;
done;

the cherry-pick-svn is an alias i defined myself like this: cherry-pick-svn = !GIT_EDITOR='sed -i /^git-svn-id:/d' git cherry-pick -e

it just strip out the git-svn-id line from the commit comment.

this way i have all the history but i think i'll have conflict any way, can you confirm? furthermore it will take a lot of space into the SVN server.

3. use svn directly. never did an svn merge with svn so I still don't know exactly how it work may be someone of you can tell me if this could work or not. this way I should always do my mergings with subversion directly

What would you do? thanks and regards, Daniele Segato

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