Re: git-svn tags and branches

From: Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date: Aug 27, 2007, 15:36 UTC
Message-ID: <A0329662-9C87-44C2-84E4-4F60DCC1E95F@lrde.epita.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20070827153138.GA12936@glandium.org>

On Aug 27, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:09:30PM +0200, David Kastrup  
> <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I actually don't see how one can safely make them tags at all (rather
>> than branches) since Subversion does not enforce the members of a
>> "tags" subdirectory to remain unchanged after the initial copy.
>> Basically, tags are not different from branches in Subversion from
>> what you can do with them.
>
> Well, git-svn could make tags when the tag/branch is created in  
> subversion,
> and then create a branch on the first commit on top of that tag/ 
> branch in
> svn.
>

Or update the tag ref in Git so that it points to the new "HEAD" of the SVN tag. But all in all, it's more consistent to have it look like a branch from the Git point of view, because that's really what it is after all.

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory