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authorEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2006-08-25 12:48:23 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-08-25 21:26:26 -0700
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git-svn: recommend rebase for syncing against an SVN repo
Does this make sense to other git-svn users out there? pull can give funky history unless you understand how git-svn works internally, which users should not be expected to do. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -235,12 +235,26 @@ Tracking and contributing to an Subversion managed-project:
git-svn commit <tree-ish> [<tree-ish_2> ...]
# Commit all the git commits from my-branch that don't exist in SVN:
git-svn commit remotes/git-svn..my-branch
-# Something is committed to SVN, pull the latest into your branch:
- git-svn fetch && git pull . remotes/git-svn
+# Something is committed to SVN, rebase the latest into your branch:
+ git-svn fetch && git rebase remotes/git-svn
# Append svn:ignore settings to the default git exclude file:
git-svn show-ignore >> .git/info/exclude
------------------------------------------------------------------------
+REBASE VS. PULL
+---------------
+
+Originally, git-svn recommended that the remotes/git-svn branch be
+pulled from. This is because the author favored 'git-svn commit B'
+to commit a single head rather than the 'git-svn commit A..B' notation
+to commit multiple commits.
+
+If you use 'git-svn commit A..B' to commit several diffs and you do not
+have the latest remotes/git-svn merged into my-branch, you should use
+'git rebase' to update your work branch instead of 'git pull'. 'pull'
+can cause non-linear history to be flattened when committing into SVN,
+which can lead to merge commits reversing previous commits in SVN.
+
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
-----------------
Merge tracking in Subversion is lacking and doing branched development
@@ -339,6 +353,10 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Renamed and
copied files are fully supported if they're similar enough for git to
detect them.
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+gitlink:git-rebase[1]
+
Author
------
Written by Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>.