Dear git Developers,
Apologies if this is not the right forum for bug reports. I was unable
to find a Bugzilla/Redmine/Flyspray instance for issue maintenance, nor
some "proper procedure" on the git web page.
I have been (ab)using git-svn for committing to a central SVN
repository while doing my work locally with git. To this end, I've
written a set of scripts and hooks which perform squash merges locally
and then dcommit them with proper svn:mergeinfo annotations. The final
result is the perfect appearance of having done a native SVN merge in
the central repository, while using only local git commands and
gaining the full benefit of git's conflict resolution and developer
convenience.
However, to make this work with git 1.7.6, I needed to make *one* change
to the git internals: --merge-info does not allow setting mergeinfo for
more than one branch. Because it's a complete overwrite operation
instead of an update, this is a serious issue preventing its use for
nontrivial branches.
Might I suggest adding a block like the following around line 552 of
git-svn?
if (defined($_merge_info))
{
$_merge_info =~ tr{ }{\n};
}
This will replace any spaces in --merge-info with newlines, allowing
specification of an svn:mergeinfo that contains merges from more than a
singe branch. So the user can provide "--merge-info
'/branch1:r2323-3849,r8888 /branch2:r9999'" and the like.
Thank you for your consideration. I am not subscribed to this list, so
if there are any replies, please copy my address.
Bryan Jacobs
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