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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:

> I guess I am confused by this guidance in git-svn(1) in the section on dcommit:
>
>     "An optional revision or branch argument may be specified, and
> causes git svn to do all work on that revision/branch instead of
> HEAD":
>
> I had assumed that dcommit would respect the optional (SVN branch)
> argument that I had specified, but it seems that this is not the case.
> What do the words in the man page actually mean, if they don't mean
> what I thought they meant.  Do the words "optional revision or branch"
> actually refer to the git commit/branch rather than the SVN
> revision/branch?

Oh, now I understand.  Yes, specifying a revision C there acts mostly as
if you said

  git checkout C^0
  git svn dcommit
  git checkout -

(IIRC, I haven't used it in a while).

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Thomas Rast
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