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Asked: May 17, 20262026-05-17T16:30:24+00:00 2026-05-17T16:30:24+00:00

Can I use git-svn without having the git-svn-id: entries appended to my commit message?

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Can I use git-svn without having the git-svn-id: entries appended to my commit message?

I have found the svn.noMetadata option comes with a warning (emphasis mine):

This gets rid of the git-svn-id: lines
at the end of every commit.

If you lose your
.git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file
, git svn
will not be able to rebuild it and you
won’t be able to fetch again, either.
This is fine for one-shot imports.

The git svn log command will not work
on repositories using this, either.
Using this conflicts with the
useSvmProps option for (hopefully)
obvious reasons.

Is there a danger of data corruption by just relying on the .rev_db file or is the warning just placed to signal that there is the danger of losing the mapping?

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    2026-05-17T16:30:24+00:00Added an answer on May 17, 2026 at 4:30 pm

    Is there a danger of data corruption by just relying on the .rev_db file or is the warning just placed to signal that there is the danger of losing the mapping?

    The latter: everything is hunky dory as long as you have the database.

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