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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: git svn dcommit <branch> committed to trunk anyway
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:44:39 +0200
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:

> I expected git svn dcommit <branch> to push commits into the svn
> branch called <branch> (a repo relative URL of
> /branches/foobar1/foobar2/<branch>)
>
> However, it decided to push into trunk instead, which was not the
> intended effect.
>
> What have I misunderstood about how git svn dcommit is supposed to work?

Did the commits you dcommitted have any git-svn-id lines?  It dcommits
(or at least it's supposed to :-) in the directory listed in the
git-svn-id line found by (roughly)

  git log --first-parent -1 --grep=^git-svn-id:

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch