Re: [PATCH] git-svn.txt: mention how to rebuild rev_map files

2013-09-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Keshav Kini wrote: The man page for `git svn` describes a situation in which 'git svn' will not be able to rebuild your .git/svn/**/.rev_map files, but no mention is made of in what circumstances `git svn` *will* be able to do so, or how to get `git svn` to do so. This patch adds some

Re: [PATCH] git-svn.txt: mention how to rebuild rev_map files

2013-09-25 Thread Eric Wong
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Keshav Kini wrote: + tracking. If necessary, rebuild the .git/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.* + files, given the requisite information exists in commit + messages (see the svn.noMetadata config option for more + information). The name of the

Re: [PATCH] git-svn.txt: mention how to rebuild rev_map files

2013-09-25 Thread Keshav Kini
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Taking a step back, the reader might wonder *why* he would want to run git svn fetch to rebuilt these .rev_map.* files, and what they are for. Perhaps there should be a separate REVISION MAP section describing this in more detail. Something as

Re: [PATCH] git-svn.txt: mention how to rebuild rev_map files

2013-09-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Keshav Kini wrote: I changed the wording of your first paragraph a bit according to what I thought it meant. Does it still convey what you wanted to convey, and is it still correct? Mapping between Subversion revision numbers and Git commit names. In a repository where the

Re: [PATCH] git-svn.txt: mention how to rebuild rev_map files

2013-09-25 Thread Keshav Kini
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Keshav Kini wrote: I changed the wording of your first paragraph a bit according to what I thought it meant. Does it still convey what you wanted to convey, and is it still correct? Mapping between Subversion revision numbers and Git commit

Re: [PATCH] git-svn.txt: mention how to rebuild rev_map files

2013-09-25 Thread Keshav Kini
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: @@ -684,7 +687,7 @@ svn-remote.name.noMetadata:: + This option can only be used for one-shot imports as 'git svn' will not be able to fetch again without metadata. Additionally, -if you lose your .git/svn/**/.rev_map.* files, 'git svn' will not

[PATCH] git-svn.txt: mention how to rebuild rev_map files

2013-09-23 Thread Keshav Kini
The man page for `git svn` describes a situation in which 'git svn' will not be able to rebuild your .git/svn/**/.rev_map files, but no mention is made of in what circumstances `git svn` *will* be able to do so, or how to get `git svn` to do so. This patch adds some language to the description of