# Re: \[git-svn PATCH\] Add --no-rebase option to git-svn dcommit

- From: David Kågedal \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:08 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7303378
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7303280/t.md

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Eric Wong [ref] writes:

> Karl Hasselström [ref] wrote:
>> git-svn dcommit exports commits to Subversion, then imports them back
>> to git again, and last but not least rebases or resets HEAD to the
>> last of the new commits. I guess this rebasing is convenient when
>> using just git, but when the commits to be exported are managed by
>> StGIT, it's really annoying. So add an option to disable this
>> behavior. And document it, too!
>
> Cool, I've been planning to add this myself, too.

One thing I haven't figured out, although I haven't looked at the code
much, is this:  When does git-svn do a merge rather than a rebase?
How can there ever be a diff?  Is this perhaps something that can
happen if you use set-tree, because I don't see how it happens with
dcommit.

-- 
David Kågedal
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