Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-svn: handle SVN merges from revisions past the tip of the branch

Toby Allsopp wrote:

When recording the revisions that it has merged, SVN sets the top
revision to be the latest revision in the repository, which is not
necessarily a revision on the branch that is being merged from.  When
it is not on the branch, git-svn fails to add the extra parent to
represent the merge because it relies on finding the commit on the
branch that corresponds to the top of the SVN merge range.

I thought, "that sounds like he's repeating himself, wait a sec..."

-test_expect_failure 'represent svn merges with intervening commits' "
+test_expect_success 'represent svn merges with intervening commits' "
 	[ `git cat-file commit HEAD | grep parent | wc -l` -eq 2 ]
 	"

So you made a failing test and then added the implementation for it?
Interesting strategy :).  I'd probably not repeat the same sentence
twice though.

Thanks for contributing this.  There might be other bugs too, especially
when upstream has a more complicated merge hierarchy ... apparently svn
tends to get it wrong, so checking for all commits might not work in
that case.

It would be nice if "dcommit" could make these commits, too...

Sam