Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: teach git-svn to populate svn:mergeinfo

From: Sam Vilain <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:30:15 -0700

On 9/2/11 12:42 PM, Bryan Jacobs wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:01:09 -0700
> Sam Vilain<[email-masked]>  wrote:
>
>> That's one way to do it; in fact, if the trees match you don't need
>> to do anything complicated like cherry-pick.
>>
>> ie, say you're committing
>>
>>      r1---A---B---C---D
>>
>> and it blows up at
>>
>>      r1--r2--r3--C---D
>>
>> So long as the tree from the fetched r3 == the tree from B, then you
>> can just go ahead and write out new commits for C and D without doing
>> any merging (ie cherry-pick or rebase).  You could also put merge
>> commits back the way they were, too.
> When you say "write out new commits" you mean create a commit object
> with the same contents, but a different parent? Does git-svn do this
> somewhere already?

I guess it doesn't, but if it did it would certainly make this easier.  
I'm not sure why it would need to modify the WC at all.  Eric, is this 
just historical or is there a better reason for that?

Sam