Re: Handling tags/branches after git-svn fetch during SVN to Git conversion

From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2010, 02:54 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinAhxIKD6U3u4OpPnt5kDMPGTyhDhhCRaFtU-gA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim56UOYQJfX3M5Jpt0vXD8iTnkLuG68IjQG39Xn@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 06:36, Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote:

> Do I need to convert these remote tags/branches into local Git
> tags/branches before pushing them to my remote Git repo or is there a
> way to push remote branches directly to my remote Git repo?
>

You don't need to "convert" the branches to local ones. git-push will accept any ref your local repo knows about when you do a push. For example "git push remote2 origin/branch-foo:refs/heads/branch-foo" works just fine, even if you don't have a "local" branch called "branch-foo", and it will push the branch-foo branch out to the remote2 remote repository.

The tags, you'll need to convert to _actual_ tags, instead of just branches under a tags/ namespace. Unless you're fine with them staying as pseudo-tags, then you can just push them out as you would any other branch.

-Jacob