GnuCash+git development process with multiple branches?

[John Ralls]

On Jul 1, 2013, at 8:21 AM, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, July 1, 2013 11:14 am, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 1, 2013, at 5:58 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So what does "git-update" do that "git fetch" (or git pull) does not?
>>> Could I theoretically run a 'git fetch' into the bare repo, clone that
>>> into each checkout I need, git svn init in each WC, and then dcommit
>>> from there back to SVN?  So I'd run 'git-update' from the WCs (instead
>>> of 'git pull'), but still run 'git fetch' from the bare repo?  It does
>>> mean that I'm holding around multiple copies of the git repo, but I
>>> could use --local to try to conserve space.
>> 
>> It fixes up the local branch head references, which git svn needs to stay
>> in sync.
> 
> So it's only needed in a repo that has been initialized with git svn
> --init, right?  I.e., it's only necessary in the (a?) repo that is going
> to dcommit back to svn?

Yes, that's correct.

Regards,
John Ralls