Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

Hi Steven, hi Eric, thanks for your explanations. I'll try to update my doc patch to include them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

Sebastian Leske wrote: > However, this does not make sense to me: This sounds like there is no > good reason *not* to enable this option. So why is it there? And in > what situation might I want to use "--no-follow-parent"? Speed. Following long/convoluted histories can take a long time. Someti

Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Sebastian Leske wrote: > > Commit graph of git-svn result: > > --follow-parent: --no-follow-parent: > > > | | > /| | | > / | | | > | |

git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

Hi, on reading the docs of "git-svn", I stumbled across this paragraph: > --follow-parent > This is especially helpful when we’re tracking a directory that has been > moved around within the repository, or if we started tracking a branch > and never tracked the trunk it was descended from. This