Re: git-svn: tagging trunk in SVN with git-svn?

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Jul 14, 2007, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20070714203509.GA29088@muzzle>
In-Reply-To: <20070714140359.GA5738@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:

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> Dear list,
> 
> I searched the list(s) and even read the code of git-svn, but I am
> none the wiser now. From what I understand, git-svn is primarily
> used to interact with subversion, rather than doing one-shot imports
> (which it can do as well).
> 
> I am using it now and it works like a charm (thanks!). However,
> I cannot really figure out how to tag the remote trunk from within
> git-svn. I tried `git tag tags/1.2.57`, `git tag 1.2.57` and `git
> branch tags/1.2.57`, but in none of the three cases does dcommit
> think that it needs to push anything upstream.
> 
> Is what I am trying to do possible, or do I need to use svn for
> that?

git-svn doesn't currently know how to create new tags/patches. It's been requested but I haven't had much time or desire to implement it, patches accepted :)

I just use "svn cp url1 url2", but I agree having git-svn automatically know about that branch would be nice.

-- 
Eric Wong