RE: git-svn with ignore-paths misses/skips some revisions during fetch

2012-11-12 Thread McHenry, Matt
Enrico asked: Could it be that certain files spent parts of their historical lifetime inside the ignored paths ? I left out one possibly important piece of information: My initial 'git svn fetch' used '-r' to cauterize the history, both because there is a lot of it (almost 12 years)

Re: git-svn with ignore-paths misses/skips some revisions during fetch

2012-11-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
The problem is that the 'ignore-paths' approach sometimes misses commits during a fetch, and then at some later time will realize it and squash those changes onto some other, unrelated commit. (I've never seen this happen with the per-subdir 'fetch'