Re: git-svn tags and branches

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/29/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> "Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > BTW can git have a tag and a branch with the same name? If
>> > not,...
>>
>> This is "Yes but".
>>
>> You can have a tag foo and branch foo.
>
> [snip]
>
>>  You can clarify yourself to avoid ambiguity like so:
>>
>>   . git branch newbranch heads/foo ;# I mean "branch from foo branch"
>>   . git log tags/foo ;# "show history starting at that tag"
>
> Ok. So assuming we import a svn repo which has a tag and a branch
> called 'name', and that there are post-tag commits in tags/name, how
> do we call the stuff?
>
> We could call 'name' both the (annotated) tag and the branch, but what
> name would we use for the branch created by post-tag commits?

That's the "Yes but" part.  You need to know what you are doing.

As I said in the part you quoted, if you have branch foo and tag
foo, and if you are interested in talking about the tag 'foo',
you say "tag/foo".  When you want to talk about the branch, you
say "heads/foo".  Replace "foo" with "name" and I think you get
your answer.