git-svn by default puts its Subversion-tracking refs directly in
refs/remotes/*. This runs counter to Git's convention of using
refs/remotes/$remote/* for storing remote-tracking branches.
Furthermore, combining git-svn with regular git remotes run the risk of
clobbering refs under refs/remotes (e.g. if you have a git remote
called "tags" with a "v1" branch, it will overlap with the git-svn's
tracking branch for the "v1" tag from Subversion.
Even though the git-svn refs stored in refs/remotes/* are not "proper"
remote-tracking branches (since they are not covered by a proper git
remote's refspec), they clearly represent a similar concept, and would
benefit from following the same convention.
For example, if git-svn tracks Subversion branch "foo" at
refs/remotes/foo, and you create a local branch refs/heads/foo to add
some commits to be pushed back to Subversion (using "git svn dcommit),
then it is clearly unhelpful of Git to throw
warning: refname 'foo' is ambiguous.
every time you checkout, rebase, or otherwise interact with the branch.
The existing workaround for this is to supply the --prefix=quux/ to
git svn init/clone, so that git-svn's tracking branches end up in
refs/remotes/quux/* instead of refs/remotes/*. However, encouraging
users to specify --prefix to work around a design flaw in git-svn is
suboptimal, and not a long term solution to the problem. Instead,
git-svn should default to use a non-empty prefix that saves
unsuspecting users from the inconveniences described above.
This patch will only affect newly created git-svn setups, as the
--prefix option only applies to git svn init (and git svn clone).
Existing git-svn setups will continue with their existing (lack of)
prefix. Also, if anyone somehow prefers git-svn's old layout, they
can recreate that by explicitly passing an empty prefix (--prefix "")
on the git svn init/clone command line.
The patch changes the default value for --prefix from "" to "origin/",
updates the git-svn manual page, and fixes the fallout in the git-svn
testcases.
(Note that this patch might be easier to review using the --word-diff
and --word-diff-regex=. diff options.)
[ew: squashed description of <= 1.9 behavior into manpage]
Suggested-by: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Currently git-svn assumes that two tags created from the same
revision will have the same repo url, so it uses a ref to the
tag without checking that its url matches the current url.
This causes issues when fetching an svn repo where a tag was
created, deleted, and then recreated under the following
circumstances:
- Both tags were copied from the same revision.
- Both tags had the same name.
- Both tags had different repository paths.
- [Optional] Both tags have a file with the same name but
different content.
When all four conditions are met, a checksum mismatch error
occurs because the content of two files with the same path
differs (see t/t9155--git-svn-fetch-deleted-tag.sh):
Checksum mismatch: ChangeLog 065854....
expected: ce771b....
got: 9563fd....
When only the first three conditions are met, no error occurs
but the tag in git matches the first (deleted) tag instead of
the last (most recent) tag (see
t/t9156-git-svn-fetch-deleted-tag-2.sh).
The fix is to verify that the repo url for the ref matches the
current url. If the urls do not match, then a "tail" is grown
on the tag name by appending a dash and rechecking the new ref's
repo url until either a matching repo url is found or a new tag
is created.
Signed-off-by: David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer@kilzer.net>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Johan Herland
David D. Kilzer