On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:23 PM Richard Earnshaw (lists)
<richard.earns...@arm.com> wrote:
>
> This patch is intended to help with folks setting up a git work
> environment for use with GCC following the transition to git.  It
> currently does a couple of things.
>
> 1) Add an alias 'svn-rev' to git so that you can look up a legacy commit
> by its svn revision number.  This enables you to type
> git svn-rev 1234
> and git will show the commit log entry relating to SVN r1234.
>
> 2) Sets up tracking information for the user's private name area in the
> git repo.  It tries to figure out some sensible answers to the data it
> needs, but allows the user to override the values.  It then creates the
> fetch and push entries that are needed for tracking the extra refs.
> This implements one part of the recommendations that I've proposed in
> svnwrite.html for dealing with private branches.
>
> It should be possible to run the script more than once and for it to
> DTRT.  If you change your answers the configuration should be correctly
> updated.

I assume the script is invoked from a clone of the new (final) repo.  Does it
need to be cloned in any special way?

Richard.

> 2020-01-10  Richard Earnshaw  <rearn...@arm.com>
>
>         * gcc-git-customization: New file.
>

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