Re: git-svn and huge data and modifying the git-svn-HEAD branch directly

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

Eric Wong wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>>On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>
>>>git-svn-HEAD "moves" so it's really a bad idea to have it as a tag.
>>>Nothing within core git prevents it from moving, but I think that
>>>porcelains will start breaking. Tags and heads are the same thing,
>>>except that heads are expected to change (specifically, to move
>>>forward), and tags are expected to stand still.
>>
>><snipped>
>>Using a "refs/remotes" subdirectory makes tons of sense for something like 
>>this. Or something even more specific, like "refs/svn-tracking/". Git 
>>shouldn't care - all the tools _should_ work fine with any subdirectory 
>>structure.
> 
> 
> Git tools only work as long as the 'refs/{remotes,svn-tracking,...}/'
> prefix is specified.  git-svn-HEAD (or any $GIT_SVN_ID-HEAD) does get
> specified from the command-line quite often:
> 	
> 	git checkout -b mine git-svn-HEAD
> 	git-log git-svn-HEAD..head
> 	git-svn commit git-svn-HEAD..mine
> 	git-log mine..git-svn-HEAD
> 
> Should rev-parse be taught to be less strict and look for basenames
> that can't be found in heads/ and tags/ in other directories?
> 

It already does. The search order is this, for a ref named 'foo':
	$GIT_DIR/foo
	$GIT_DIR/refs/foo
	$GIT_DIR/refs/tags/foo
	$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/foo

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