Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Sebastian Leske sebastian.le...@sleske.name wrote: Commit graph of git-svn result: --follow-parent: --no-follow-parent: | | /| | | / | | |

Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

Sebastian Leske sebastian.le...@sleske.name wrote: However, this does not make sense to me: This sounds like there is no good reason *not* to enable this option. So why is it there? And in what situation might I want to use --no-follow-parent? Speed. Following long/convoluted histories can

Re: git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

Hi Steven, hi Eric, thanks for your explanations. I'll try to update my doc patch to include them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

git-svn: What is --follow-parent / --no-follow-parent for?

Hi, on reading the docs of git-svn, I stumbled across this paragraph: --follow-parent This is especially helpful when we’re tracking a directory that has been moved around within the repository, or if we started tracking a branch and never tracked the trunk it was descended from. This