Re: git-svn: SVK merge commits can have >2 parents

Alex Vandiver [off-list ref] wrote:

At Sun Nov 29 02:28:39 -0500 2009, Alex Vandiver wrote:

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While converting a mildly complicated svn repository that was managed
with SVK, I ran across the following oddness.  `svk smerge` can only
merge between _two_ branches at once -- however, the way that svk
merge detection works, you can end up with erroneous extra parents
from long-dead branches.

Upon a little more inspection, I now understand that the rev-parse
lines in find_extra_svk_parents are attempting to deal with this exact
circumstance -- but they fail to properly sort the merge tickets
first, which leads to this incorrect behavior.  Armed with this
understanding, I'm more confident in the attached updated patch.  I

Hi Alex, Sam,

I'll defer to Sam for the Ack, my svk knowledge is limited. Thanks.

-- 
Eric Wong