Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> The only reason why the original is not ordered that way, as far as I can
>>> tell, is because "It is recommended that" was part of an existing paragraph
>>> when dd31da2 (git-svn: allow dcommit to take an alternate head, 2006-12-12)
>>> added "An optional ...", so it was tucked after existing paragraph without
>>> reading the resulting whole to see if "at the very end" was the best place.
>>
>> Re-reading this, I don't think the advice:
>>
>> "It is recommended that you run 'git svn' fetch and rebase (not
>> pull or merge) your commits against the latest changes in the =C2=A0SVN
>> repository."
>>
>> really belongs in the description of dcommit at all.
>
> I tend to agree. Opinions from git-svn experts?
I agree that this is not dcommit-specific advice. Perhaps there should
be a longer section that explains in detail what is rebased how and thus
what the limitations of dcommit are.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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