Re: core-git and porcelains

Shawn Pearce wrote:

I don't use multiple upstream branches in SVN fortunately, but the
git-svn documentation suggests there is a way to change the Git
branch name from 'refs/remotes/git-svn' to another name such that
you can create one Git branch for each remote SVN branch.  Of course
you need to set that environment variable before invoking git-svn.

I was reading git-svn documentation and just found about multi-init. 
Seems like you're describing, execept that no branch get init'ed as the 
"default" branch, and you always need to specify the the branch name 
before doing a fetch/dcomic/etc. I hope this works for me -- I'll need 
to switch between two or three remote branches quite frequently.

As for my daily work with git-svn, I run "git svn fetch" to fetch any
changes that had occurred in SVN along the branch I follow, then if
any changes did exist I merge them into my Git working branch with
"git pull . refs/remotes/git-svn".  When I'm ready to send stuff
back up to SVN I do "git svn dcommit refs/remotes/git-svn..master",
where master is the name of the Git branch I want to send.

Sounds a lot like what I do today with svk. If git works for me just as 
good as svk, the speed increase alone will make the switch worth.

-- Marcus