# git-svn and working with tags

2 messages from 2006-02-26 to 2006-02-27. Participants: Nicolas Vilz 'niv', Eric Wong.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3468

## Nicolas Vilz 'niv', 2006-02-26 11:38

Subject: git-svn and working with tags
Message-ID: <4401933B.2070109@iaglans.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4401933B.2070109%40iaglans.de

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Hi guys,

I am about to use a git/svn construct for a project next week to track
my work and the work of my co-workers.

Reason for this is, that all the others are working on windows-boxes and
I am the lonesome gunman, who wants to work with git on a linux box
contributing the others on svn side.

There is still a lot of work todo, preparing both backends, git and svn,
for serving almost the same content structure.

I think, i can do a little scripting to switch my git-SVN-HEAD to
another branch. But how am i intended to export tags to svn?

tags should simply go to <repos>/tags/<tagname>
branches go to <repos>/branches/<branchname>
master goes to <repos>/trunk

A svn-import should be no problem then. The re-exporting back to one
branch or svn_path is described in git-svn howto. but how about tags?

do i have to consider the tags on svn-side manually?

any ideas/hints?

Sincerly
Nicolas

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## Eric Wong, 2006-02-27 00:07

Subject: Re: git-svn and working with tags
Message-ID: <20060227000737.GA9518@hand.yhbt.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060227000737.GA9518%40hand.yhbt.net
In-Reply-To: <4401933B.2070109@iaglans.de>

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Nicolas Vilz 'niv' <niv@iaglans.de> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am about to use a git/svn construct for a project next week to track
> my work and the work of my co-workers.
> 
> Reason for this is, that all the others are working on windows-boxes and
> I am the lonesome gunman, who wants to work with git on a linux box
> contributing the others on svn side.
> 
> There is still a lot of work todo, preparing both backends, git and svn,
> for serving almost the same content structure.
> 
> I think, i can do a little scripting to switch my git-SVN-HEAD to
> another branch. But how am i intended to export tags to svn?
> 
> tags should simply go to <repos>/tags/<tagname>
> branches go to <repos>/branches/<branchname>
> master goes to <repos>/trunk
> 
> A svn-import should be no problem then. The re-exporting back to one
> branch or svn_path is described in git-svn howto. but how about tags?
> 
> do i have to consider the tags on svn-side manually?

You'll need to do tags on the svn-side manually.  git-svn (by-design)
has hardly any notion of SVN tags (they're really just branches
designated as read-only).  git-svn also fails to track directory copies
[1], so using git-svn to track a higher-level directory and performing a
copy in git and doing git-svn commit may not work so well.

You can make something that parses a git commit that was imported in
git-svn-HEAD.  These imported commits have a 'git-svn-id:' line at the
end that can be parsed for URL and revision number, so you could make it
frontend 'svn cp' pretty easily.

[1]: git-diff-* doesn't notice copied/renamed directories.  I'm
actually very thankful for this as it's very prone to bugs in my
experience.

-- 
Eric Wong

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