Re: git-svn tags and branches

From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2007, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <cb7bb73a0708290141y159d6bbfj2bac23af5e86bb15@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46D4ECE2.9020806@vilain.net>

On 8/29/07, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:

> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

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> > I gather from the man page that doing this is highly frowned upon, and
> > requires manual intervention from all the poor souls that pulled in
> > the mean time.
>
> Right, but I think the bad practice should be propagated anyway.  It
> will affect virtually no-one, and serves to make it the case that even
> if such a thing happened, then just fetching the tag gives the expected
> behaviour.
>
> However I'd be prepared to accept that perhaps new tags should be made,
> eg "tags/svntagname.r1234", to reflect the fact there are there multiple
> tags with the same name but different contents.

Urgh. I think I like this idea even less. just use the tag 'tagname' and move it around then :)

BTW can git have a tag and a branch with the same name? If not, I would recomment the use of 'name' for the tag, 'name-branch' for the branch, and 'tag-name-branch' for the branch under the tag.

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> > I've been looking through the git-svn code to see if I could try an
> > implementation myself, but I must confess that the task seems way over
> > me ... I can't really wrap my mind around the git-svn code enough to
> > implement it.
>
> Coming up with agreed test cases is half (indeed sometimes most of) the
> work.

The only two svn projects I cooperate with don't have this particular situation. IIRC David mentioned the case?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta