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Re: native-git-svn: A Summer of Code 2010 proposal

From
Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Mar 27, 2010, 09:19 UTC
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<20100327091938.GA4395@thyrsus.com>
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Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com>:
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> >    3.5 cmd_branch: Handle branching/ tagging
> 
> I'm torn on how the current system handles this,  I like all tags to
> be tags, and
> that if a tag had a branch like behavior (bad SVN users!), that a branch exists
> for it, with the tag pointing to its branches head.

Ah. This sounds like s discussion, pre-dating my joining the list, of my issue #2 about git-svn - not rendering unmodified tag directories as git tags. It's good that someone wants to rackle this seriously.

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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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  1. Steven MichalskeMar 27, 2010
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 27, 2010
  3. Steven MichalskeMar 27, 2010
  4. Eric RaymondMar 27, 2010
  5. Eric RaymondMar 28, 2010
  6. Ramkumar RamachandraMar 29, 2010

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