diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index f977e8780b5e152b18d07a61fde8c2f86f98a0ce..34ee785064128bce0feb2cfc86d3040b42a8f428 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -234,6 +234,14 @@ svn:mergeinfo property in the SVN repository when possible. Currently, this can
 only be done when dcommitting non-fast-forward merges where all parents but the
 first have already been pushed into SVN.
 
+--interactive;;
+	Ask the user to confirm that a patch set should actually be sent to SVN.
+	For each patch, one may answer "yes" (accept this patch), "no" (discard this
+	patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit".
+	+
+	'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer if "no" or "quit", without
+	commiting anything to SVN.
+
 'branch'::
 	Create a branch in the SVN repository.
 
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index a0410f055406eaaf54ddb056d4b501b3cd250d72..c14d813f40189b9e9cda402af5c3edc14cf86de1 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ BEGIN
 	$_version, $_fetch_all, $_no_rebase, $_fetch_parent,
 	$_merge, $_strategy, $_dry_run, $_local,
 	$_prefix, $_no_checkout, $_url, $_verbose,
-	$_git_format, $_commit_url, $_tag, $_merge_info);
+	$_git_format, $_commit_url, $_tag, $_merge_info, $_interactive);
 $Git::SVN::_follow_parent = 1;
 $SVN::Git::Fetcher::_placeholder_filename = ".gitignore";
 $_q ||= 0;
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ BEGIN
 			  'revision|r=i' => \$_revision,
 			  'no-rebase' => \$_no_rebase,
 			  'mergeinfo=s' => \$_merge_info,
+			  'interactive|i' => \$_interactive,
 			%cmt_opts, %fc_opts } ],
 	branch => [ \&cmd_branch,
 	            'Create a branch in the SVN repository',
@@ -256,6 +257,27 @@ BEGIN
 		{} ],
 );
 
+use Term::ReadLine;
+package FakeTerm;
+sub new {
+	my ($class, $reason) = @_;
+	return bless \$reason, shift;
+}
+sub readline {
+	my $self = shift;
+	die "Cannot use readline on FakeTerm: $$self";
+}
+package main;
+
+my $term = eval {
+	$ENV{"GIT_SVN_NOTTY"}
+		? new Term::ReadLine 'git-svn', \*STDIN, \*STDOUT
+		: new Term::ReadLine 'git-svn';
+};
+if ($@) {
+	$term = new FakeTerm "$@: going non-interactive";
+}
+
 my $cmd;
 for (my $i = 0; $i < @ARGV; $i++) {
 	if (defined $cmd{$ARGV[$i]}) {
@@ -366,6 +388,36 @@ sub version {
 	exit 0;
 }
 
+sub ask {
+	my ($prompt, %arg) = @_;
+	my $valid_re = $arg{valid_re};
+	my $default = $arg{default};
+	my $resp;
+	my $i = 0;
+
+	if ( !( defined($term->IN)
+            && defined( fileno($term->IN) )
+            && defined( $term->OUT )
+            && defined( fileno($term->OUT) ) ) ){
+		return defined($default) ? $default : undef;
+	}
+
+	while ($i++ < 10) {
+		$resp = $term->readline($prompt);
+		if (!defined $resp) { # EOF
+			print "\n";
+			return defined $default ? $default : undef;
+		}
+		if ($resp eq '' and defined $default) {
+			return $default;
+		}
+		if (!defined $valid_re or $resp =~ /$valid_re/) {
+			return $resp;
+		}
+	}
+	return undef;
+}
+
 sub do_git_init_db {
 	unless (-d $ENV{GIT_DIR}) {
 		my @init_db = ('init');
@@ -746,6 +798,27 @@ sub cmd_dcommit {
 		     "If these changes depend on each other, re-running ",
 		     "without --no-rebase may be required."
 	}
+
+	if (defined $_interactive){
+		my $ask_default = "y";
+		foreach my $d (@$linear_refs){
+			my ($fh, $ctx) = command_output_pipe(qw(show --summary), "$d");
+			while (<$fh>){
+				print $_;
+			}
+			command_close_pipe($fh, $ctx);
+			$_ = ask("Commit this patch to SVN? ([y]es (default)|[n]o|[q]uit|[a]ll): ",
+			         valid_re => qr/^(?:yes|y|no|n|quit|q|all|a)/i,
+			         default => $ask_default);
+			die "Commit this patch reply required" unless defined $_;
+			if (/^[nq]/i) {
+				exit(0);
+			} elsif (/^a/i) {
+				last;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	my $expect_url = $url;
 
 	my $push_merge_info = eval {
diff --git a/t/t9162-git-svn-dcommit-interactive.sh b/t/t9162-git-svn-dcommit-interactive.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e38d9fa37b50195607b0f1d066eb4c78f39cfc4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t9162-git-svn-dcommit-interactive.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2011 Frédéric Heitzmann
+
+test_description='git svn dcommit --interactive series'
+. ./lib-git-svn.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'initialize repo' '
+	svn_cmd mkdir -m"mkdir test-interactive" "$svnrepo/test-interactive" &&
+	git svn clone "$svnrepo/test-interactive" test-interactive &&
+	cd test-interactive &&
+	touch foo && git add foo && git commit -m"foo: first commit" &&
+	git svn dcommit
+	'
+
+test_expect_success 'answers: y [\n] yes' '
+	(
+		echo "change #1" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #1" &&
+		echo "change #2" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #2" &&
+		echo "change #3" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #3" &&
+		( echo "y
+
+y" | GIT_SVN_NOTTY=1 git svn dcommit --interactive ) &&
+		test $(git rev-parse HEAD) = $(git rev-parse remotes/git-svn)
+	)
+	'
+
+test_expect_success 'answers: yes yes no' '
+	(
+		echo "change #1" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #1" &&
+		echo "change #2" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #2" &&
+		echo "change #3" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #3" &&
+		( echo "yes
+yes
+no" | GIT_SVN_NOTTY=1 git svn dcommit --interactive ) &&
+		test $(git rev-parse HEAD^^^) = $(git rev-parse remotes/git-svn) &&
+		git reset --hard remotes/git-svn
+	)
+	'
+
+test_expect_success 'answers: yes quit' '
+	(
+		echo "change #1" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #1" &&
+		echo "change #2" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #2" &&
+		echo "change #3" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #3" &&
+		( echo "yes
+quit" | GIT_SVN_NOTTY=1 git svn dcommit --interactive ) &&
+		test $(git rev-parse HEAD^^^) = $(git rev-parse remotes/git-svn) &&
+		git reset --hard remotes/git-svn
+	)
+	'
+
+test_expect_success 'answers: all' '
+	(
+		echo "change #1" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #1" &&
+		echo "change #2" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #2" &&
+		echo "change #3" >> foo && git commit -a -m"change #3" &&
+		( echo "all" | GIT_SVN_NOTTY=1 git svn dcommit --interactive ) &&
+		test $(git rev-parse HEAD) = $(git rev-parse remotes/git-svn) &&
+		git reset --hard remotes/git-svn
+	)
+	'
+
+test_done