From: Jon Seymour Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:35:22 GMT Subject: Re: migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?) Message-ID: <2cfc40321001301535s2f886629m8c05cbaefeb81372@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100130230829.GA3544@comppasch2> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:08 AM, fkater@googlemail.com wrote: > 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.