Re: migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?)

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2010, 23:35 UTC
Message-ID: <2cfc40321001301535s2f886629m8c05cbaefeb81372@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100130230829.GA3544@comppasch2>

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:08 AM, fkater@googlemail.com <fkater@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I would like to completely migrate from subversion to git
> (and NOT have subversion enabled anymore). However, I need
> to be able to lookup the old subversion revision numbers
> later from the git repository. The default seems to be
> though, that they are replaced by git sha-1 keys.
>
> It would be completely o.k. here to use git tags for all
> those subversion revision numbers (if possible), so, to
> create a tag for each subversion revision. However, I have
> neither seen any option in git nor found a script which does
> that upon cloning (converting) a subversion repo into a git
> repo.
>
> Is there a way to do so?
>

As I understand it, git-svn stores the SVN revision number in the git commit message and git-svn log allows queries based on the SVN revision number. I think you will find having one tag for each SVN revision number is an abuse of the git tag facility - it makes it much harder to use for its intended function in git.

jon.