From: Matt Kern Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:24:10 GMT Subject: Re: Git SVN Rebranching Issue Message-ID: <20081104112409.GA21758@deimos.cyantechnology.local> In-Reply-To: <20081104094224.GC24100@dpotapov.dyndns.org> > > It was actually an intentional design decision on my part preserve > > parents based on branch name. We would eventually otherwise lose > > history of the now-deleted branches, as reflogs can expire. > > Would it not be better to save the old branch using "@SVN-NUMBER" as > suffix? Thus, those do not need the old branch can easily delete it. I would second this approach. Our svn repository isn't particularly big or old, but if someone were to make a branch now, there is a fair chance it will have the same name as an old branch but have absolutely nothing to do with that old branch. The situation will only get worse as our svn repository grows and more branches are created/deleted. Matt -- Matt Kern http://www.undue.org/