From: Sebastian Leske Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:16:30 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2 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 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 6bda014..18d5e45 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -959,6 +959,13 @@ 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. +SVN tags (if tracked using options '--tags' or '--stdlayout') are +imported as git branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'. +This is because tags in SVN behave more like git branches: The contents +of a tag need not be identical to the tagged commit, and 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). + CONFIGURATION ------------- -- 1.7.10.4