Re: git-svn: Branching clarifications

[David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>]

Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> git-svn sets "master" to the most recently committed-to branch
> in SVN the first time it fetches.  "git-log master" will tell
> you (look at the git-svn-id: lines).

Sigh.  Another "surprise the user by an arbitrary looking choice that
might possibly correspond to what he wants done because it something
obscure in the commit history suggests so" design decision.

I don't want my master set according to something that a coworker (or
even myself) happened to commit last to.

Please.  git-svn is told how to find the trunk on its command line.
Nothing makes sense (short of an _explicit_ wish otherwise for which
it might make sense to create a command line option) than to map
master to the trunk.

As a design rule: don't second-guess the user, _ever_, and
particularly not on decisions with large consequences.  A tool should
not have a mind of its own but do what it is told.  And if it can't
figure out what it is told, by simple, user-understandable criteria,
barf.  And of course have a way to _direct_ it when it can't figure it
out on its own, or if the simple and obvious default would not do the
right thing.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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