Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 2006-02-28 05:55:57
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:46:41AM -0800, Eric Wong wrote:
> > now i am a little confused about that... oh, i actually modified the
> > svn-git directly instead of a private working branch... perhaps that was
> > not intended.
> 
> You should never, ever modify the git-svn-HEAD branch yourself.
> Interface branches should never be modified.  It's the golden rule of
> interfacing between different SCM interfaces.  Sorry, I've been doing
> things like this this for a while now I guess I didn't make it
> abundantly clear in the documentation.

If it is not supposed to be changed by the user, maybe it could be
stored as a tag.

Or maybe another type of reference can be introduced. refs/remote/, for
branches we are tracking, but which should not be modified locally.

Jan
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