From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:18:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [updated PATCH] Protect current tags, import tags into remote tree
Message-ID: <7vbq3t89qe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080428184859.GA21950@cuci.nl>

"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> writes:

> Rerunning cvsimport on a regular basis causes the import to (re)create
> all the tags from CVS again; if this is done in your regular tags space,
> this is a mess at best, or overwrites whatever renamed tags you
> carefully created which happen to match with old CVS tagnames.
> ...
> - git-svn and git-cvsimport cross the boundary to a different VCS and
>   therefore can/should use an extra barrier before (auto)converting to
>   git native tags (and branches).

That sounds like a sound argument, and perhaps people may wish we did so
from the day one.  Alas, we didn't.

So the course of action would be to do these over a long period of time.

 - introduce this as an option now;

 - give another option to explicitly ask for the current behaviour;

 - perhaps give an advance warning that this optional behaviour will
   become the default; and

 - finally swap the default behaviour.

if people agree with this change, that is.