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Re: Git / Subversion Interoperability

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2007, 14:21 UTC
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<20070323004335.GA17773@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> - Assigning repository-wide revision numbers.  Git doesn't have
> such a concept, but its key to SVN.  These would need to be stored
> in a file so the server can quickly map from revision number to
> Git commit SHA-1.  The reflogs may help here, but currently they
> also expire.  Any reflog that is being used to do this mapping
> cannot be expired, ever.

Another idea is to use lightweight tags for that, especially now with packed refs support in git.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  1. Bruno Cesar RibasMar 22, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceMar 23, 2007
  3. Julian PhillipsMar 23, 2007
  4. Shawn O. PearceMar 23, 2007
  5. Julian PhillipsMar 23, 2007
  6. Karl HasselströmMar 23, 2007
  7. Bruno Cesar RibasMar 23, 2007
  8. Karl HasselströmMar 23, 2007
  9. Julian PhillipsMar 23, 2007
  10. Bruno Cesar RibasMar 23, 2007
  11. David LangMar 23, 2007
  12. Daniel BarkalowMar 23, 2007
  13. Shawn O. PearceMar 24, 2007
  14. Karl HasselströmMar 24, 2007
  15. Linus TorvaldsMar 24, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2007
  17. Sam VilainMar 26, 2007
  18. Christian WieseMar 23, 2007
  19. Steven GrimmMar 23, 2007
  20. Shawn O. PearceMar 24, 2007
  21. Sam VilainMar 26, 2007
  22. Jakub NarebskiMar 23, 2007
  23. Shawn O. PearceMar 24, 2007
  24. Eric WongMar 24, 2007
  25. Eric WongMar 24, 2007

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