From: Benoit SIGOURE Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:36:20 GMT Subject: Re: git-svn tags and branches Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070827153138.GA12936@glandium.org> On Aug 27, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:09:30PM +0200, David Kastrup > 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. -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory