Re: git-svn tags and branches

[Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 27, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:09:30PM +0200, David Kastrup  
> <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I actually don't see how one can safely make them tags at all (rather
> > than branches) since Subversion does not enforce the members of a
> > "tags" subdirectory to remain unchanged after the initial copy.
> > Basically, tags are not different from branches in Subversion from
> > what you can do with them.
>
> Well, git-svn could make tags when the tag/branch is created in  
> subversion,
> and then create a branch on the first commit on top of that tag/ 
> branch in
> svn.

Or update the tag ref in Git so that it points to the new "HEAD" of  
the SVN tag.  But all in all, it's more consistent to have it look  
like a branch from the Git point of view, because that's really what  
it is after all.

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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