Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly

Jan Harkes [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:46:41AM -0800, Eric Wong wrote:

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now i am a little confused about that... oh, i actually modified the
svn-git directly instead of a private working branch... perhaps that was
not intended.

You should never, ever modify the git-svn-HEAD branch yourself.
Interface branches should never be modified.  It's the golden rule of
interfacing between different SCM interfaces.  Sorry, I've been doing
things like this this for a while now I guess I didn't make it
abundantly clear in the documentation.

If it is not supposed to be changed by the user, maybe it could be
stored as a tag.

Or maybe another type of reference can be introduced. refs/remote/, for
branches we are tracking, but which should not be modified locally.

Either of those could work for me.  Changing git-svn-HEAD to become a
tag would probably be easier (not having to update other tools, such as
git-fetch), but refs/remote may make more sense.

-- 
Eric Wong