From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@gmail.com>,
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-svn aborts with "Use of uninitialized value $u" when a non-svn-backed branch is present in remote
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:39:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0+vG3i26=w7WqjYcpOLj+V6X35_W6DAiMmTpiC2kxRWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160624200603.GA28498@dcvr.yhbt.net>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Please don't drop Cc:, re-adding git@vger and Christian
>
> Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Christian (Cc-ed) also noticed the problem a few weeks ago
>> > and took a more drastic approach by having git-svn die
>> > instead of warning:
>> > http://mid.gmane.org/1462604323-18545-1-git-send-email-chriscool@tuxfamily.org
>> > which landed as commit 523a33ca17c76bee007d7394fb3930266c577c02
>> > in git.git: https://bogomips.org/mirrors/git.git/patch?id=523a33ca17c7
>> >
>> > Is dying here too drastic and maybe warn is preferable?
>>
>> In my opinion this is too drastic. It keeps me from storing
>> git-specific data on a git-svn mirror.
>
> I tend to agree, but will wait to see what Christian thinks.
Yeah a warning is probably enough.
Another possibility would be to default to an error that tells people
about a configuration variable that could let them decide depending on
their workflow if this should be an error, a warning or just be
ignored.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-25 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-22 18:48 git-svn aborts with "Use of uninitialized value $u" when a non-svn-backed branch is present in remote Jacob Godserv
2016-06-24 14:44 ` Jacob Godserv
2016-06-24 19:35 ` Eric Wong
[not found] ` <CALi1mtc6Byb39kbAv16vmkUVu3JDdGG4-yVrLroDVraPDxGFng@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-24 20:06 ` Eric Wong
2016-06-25 8:39 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2016-07-02 10:33 ` [PATCH] git-svn: warn instead of dying when commit data is missing Eric Wong
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