From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:21:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Git / Subversion Interoperability
Message-ID: <eu0njb$q3b$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070323004335.GA17773@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> - 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