# migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?) 4 messages from 2010-01-30 to 2010-01-31. Participants: fkater@googlemail.com, Jon Seymour, Jacob Helwig, Ilari Liusvaara. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22456 ## fkater@googlemail.com, 2010-01-30 23:08 Subject: migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?) Message-ID: <20100130230829.GA3544@comppasch2> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100130230829.GA3544%40comppasch2 ``` Hi, I would like to completely migrate from subversion to git (and NOT have subversion enabled anymore). However, I need to be able to lookup the old subversion revision numbers later from the git repository. The default seems to be though, that they are replaced by git sha-1 keys. It would be completely o.k. here to use git tags for all those subversion revision numbers (if possible), so, to create a tag for each subversion revision. However, I have neither seen any option in git nor found a script which does that upon cloning (converting) a subversion repo into a git repo. Is there a way to do so? Thank You Felix ``` ## Jon Seymour, 2010-01-30 23:35 Subject: Re: migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?) Message-ID: <2cfc40321001301535s2f886629m8c05cbaefeb81372@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/2cfc40321001301535s2f886629m8c05cbaefeb81372%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100130230829.GA3544@comppasch2> ``` On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:08 AM, fkater@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to completely migrate from subversion to git > (and NOT have subversion enabled anymore). However, I need > to be able to lookup the old subversion revision numbers > later from the git repository. The default seems to be > though, that they are replaced by git sha-1 keys. > > It would be completely o.k. here to use git tags for all > those subversion revision numbers (if possible), so, to > create a tag for each subversion revision. However, I have > neither seen any option in git nor found a script which does > that upon cloning (converting) a subversion repo into a git > repo. > > Is there a way to do so? > As I understand it, git-svn stores the SVN revision number in the git commit message and git-svn log allows queries based on the SVN revision number. I think you will find having one tag for each SVN revision number is an abuse of the git tag facility - it makes it much harder to use for its intended function in git. jon. ``` ## Jacob Helwig, 2010-01-30 23:36 Subject: Re: migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?) Message-ID: <8c9a061001301536g1a990881qa27ba681ee90c6eb@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8c9a061001301536g1a990881qa27ba681ee90c6eb%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100130230829.GA3544@comppasch2> ``` On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 15:08, fkater@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to completely migrate from subversion to git > (and NOT have subversion enabled anymore). However, I need > to be able to lookup the old subversion revision numbers > later from the git repository. The default seems to be > though, that they are replaced by git sha-1 keys. > > It would be completely o.k. here to use git tags for all > those subversion revision numbers (if possible), so, to > create a tag for each subversion revision. However, I have > neither seen any option in git nor found a script which does > that upon cloning (converting) a subversion repo into a git > repo. > > Is there a way to do so? > > Thank You >  Felix > There's not really any need to tag every revision with the SVN revision number. If you use svn-all-fast-export, or git-svn to do the SVN -> Git conversion, then the SVN revision numbers will end up as part of the commit message when it is in Git. -Jacob ``` ## Ilari Liusvaara, 2010-01-31 08:04 Subject: Re: migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?) Message-ID: <20100131080450.GB30470@Knoppix> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100131080450.GB30470%40Knoppix In-Reply-To: <20100130230829.GA3544@comppasch2> ``` On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:08:29AM +0100, fkater@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to completely migrate from subversion to git > (and NOT have subversion enabled anymore). However, I need > to be able to lookup the old subversion revision numbers > later from the git repository. The default seems to be > though, that they are replaced by git sha-1 keys. > > It would be completely o.k. here to use git tags for all > those subversion revision numbers (if possible), so, to > create a tag for each subversion revision. However, I have > neither seen any option in git nor found a script which does > that upon cloning (converting) a subversion repo into a git > repo. > > Is there a way to do so? Another way would be to have SVN version numbers in commit message (--grep option works fine, if those version numbers have fixed format). The version numbers git-svn outputs are ugly, but filter-branch can be pretty easily rewrite those into more pretty form, something like "This was SVN r123" or "SVN-version: r123". (adjust to taste) -Ilari ```