From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Baumann Subject: Re: git-svn tags and branches Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:25:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20070830122514.GF5050@xp.machine.xx> References: <20070830102115.GA17620@muzzle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Wong , git@vger.kernel.org To: Giuseppe Bilotta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 30 14:26:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IQj5t-0000Qu-39 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:25:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752985AbXH3MZs (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:25:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754219AbXH3MZs (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:25:48 -0400 Received: from matlock.hofmann.stw.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.24.35]:36104 "HELO mail.hofmann.stw.uni-erlangen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752929AbXH3MZs (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:25:48 -0400 Received: (qmail 32313 invoked by uid 0); 30 Aug 2007 12:25:45 -0000 Received: from ho135.hofmann.stw.uni-erlangen.de (HELO localhost) (p.b@hofmann.stw.uni-erlangen.de@172.17.27.135) by mail.hofmann.stw.uni-erlangen.de with SMTP; 30 Aug 2007 12:25:45 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: Giuseppe Bilotta , Eric Wong , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:44:35PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On 8/30/07, Eric Wong wrote: > > As noted by other repliers, SVN tags can be moving targets just like > > branches, and are treated as such by git-svn. > > > > I should note that tags in git can actually be updated like a branch > > just the same way, too, it's just not as easy to "accidentally" do. > > > > So I'll add the ability to modify refs under the refs/tags/ namespace to > > my git-svn TODO list (which is getting rather large). I also plan to > > support branches outside of the refs/remotes/ namespace so it's easier > > to use (clone, browse from gitweb) from bare repositories. > > Thank you very much, that would be very appreciated. > > While we're at it: could you consider putting the svn-imported refs > not directly under remote? something like refs/remote/svn would be > rather cleaner. > Did you have a look at the --prefix option mentioned in the manpage? I think it does what you want. -Peter