From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 16:37:54 GMT Subject: Re: [RFD] Proposal for git-svn: storing SVN metadata (git-svn-id) in notes Message-ID: <201105281837.56655.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Sat, 28 May 2011, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > 2011/5/28 Jakub Narebski : > > Now that git supports annotating comments with `git notes` utility, > > could we have an option to git-svn which would make it store SVN > > metadata, i.e. git-svn-id: lines using git-notes (separate svnmetadata > > or git-svn notes ref)? > > One good thing about git-svn's current system is that you can easily > share your repository with someone else, and they can bootstrap from > the same commits. How it works with svn-dcommit rewriting commits? > Has the sharing of git-notes been improved to the point where that > could be done similarly transparently? First, the idea was to do it optionally. In addition to existing and discouraged `svn.noMetadata` / `--no-metadata` git-svn would acquire `svn.metadata` / `--metadata` / `--svn-metadata` = none | notes | commits that would as one option put 'git-svn-id:' lines or their equivalent to git notes. Second, from what I understand from the very beginning git-notes was designed in such way that sharing notes is sharing ref. git-replace shares this feature. But please take above with a grain of salt, having never used notes before, and not being developer of this subsystem. -- Jakub Narebski Poland