Re: git-svn stubbornly re-creating branch "master"

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This discussion seems to have stalled...

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:57:52PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 2009/3/29 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 18:13:47 +0100, Marcin Owsiany
> > <porridge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> As you can see, "master" sprang back to life after the last command.
> >
> > It looks like git-svn does not like a repo without 'master'. It seems
> > the problem was caused by this patch:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=1e889ef36c45b5554f7e317493ed3f4f901f8d9f
> >
> > I have added Eric to CC...
> 
> Why not just check if HEAD points to a valid commit, rather than
> master? It should do the same
> in the newly created repo case, and stop annoying people on updates.

There seems to be agreement that while conventions are nice, git should
not force branch names on people. Can someone implement Mikael's
suggestion?

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