From: Sebastian Leske Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:29:38 GMT Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] git-svn: Note about tags. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske --- Documentation/git-svn.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 021fb0e..445b033 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -968,6 +968,12 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough for git to detect them. +In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag +(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a +branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a +commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively +and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'. + CONFIGURATION ------------- -- 1.7.10.4