Subject: Re: git-svn error "Unable to extract revision information from commit ...~1"

From: Steven Grimm <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:57:02 -0700

Victor Bogado da Silva Lins wrote:
> I will try that, but on the other hand is it possible to commit the 
> diff between my head and the svn head with a new message? This would 
> be good enough for me.

Yes, that's pretty easy; you just have to do a squash merge to eliminate 
the nonlinear history. Assuming the svn head is called "trunk" and your 
head is called "myhead":

# start with the svn head
git checkout -b trunk tempbranch
# bring in all the changes from your branch
git merge --squash myhead
# commit with whatever message you want
git commit
# and ship it up to svn land
git svn dcommit

-Steve