Re: git-svn and repository hierarchy?

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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:06:06PM -0500, Peter Harris wrote:
>>
>> I thought that this was already a part of svn, but it appears in the
>> 1.6 (not quite final yet) release notes: "SSL client certificate
>> passphrases can be stored in KWallet, GNOME Keyring, Mac OS Keychain,
>> a Windows CryptoAPI encrypted form or in plaintext form."
>
> Ummm, I always found it hard to find their changelog.  At least
> http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/CHANGES?view=markup&pathrev=36138
> don't mention those features.  Do you have a pointer?

http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.6_releasenotes.html#auth-related-improvements

>> Of course, you're a paranoid admin, so you already have a
>> pre-revprop-change hook in your svn server that prevents
>> log/author/date changes. Right? ;-)
>
> Well, actually it allows the changes for a very limited user group (that
> is: only me 8-).  While I agree that author/date should not be changed,
> I like to be able to fix silly typos in the log.  After all, we all do
> typos now and then ;-)

True, but in my experience it happens considerably less often with
git. I find and fix most of my typos when reviewing my change-set
before doing a "git push" or "git svn dcommit".

> Maybe there's room for more improvement:  Since the merge is done on a
> scratch branch anyway, why not letting the clones _push_ into branches
> with random names: cloneX-`uuidgen` or something.  So the clones could
> do the push whenever they have net access.  The actual merge can be done
> completely decoupled from the push operation.

Indeed. Or even not-so-random names, such as cloneX/topic-name if you prefer.

Peter Harris
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