From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:12:39 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation
Message-ID: <20070803031239.GL20052@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <46B26686.3010002@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 1. The helper branches should be deleted after the tag has been defined.
>  I simply couldn't figure out how to do this using git-fast-import, and
> git-fast-import complained when I tried to use a branch called
> "TAG_FIXUP" without the "refs/head/" prefix.

Two issues there:

* Deleting branches:

  I currently don't support this in fast-import, but I'll add support
  for it.  Its actually pretty simple to tell it to drop a branch,
  especially if the dang thing doesn't actually exist in the git
  repository yet (because its only in-memory).

* Creating a branch without refs/heads/ prefix:

  This is a bug.  I had good intentions by trying to verify the
  name was one that didn't contain special reserved characters,
  but I wound up also requiring you to create branches only in the
  refs/heads/ namespace.  That was not what I wanted to do.  I'm
  patching it tonight.

-- 
Shawn.