From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raymond Subject: Re: native-git-svn: A Summer of Code 2010 proposal Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:19:38 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20100327091938.GA4395@thyrsus.com> References: <3d4937ff1003262240t6159d9c5sc9253f555c3aed1@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Michalske X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 27 10:19:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvSBF-0000dm-1O for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:19:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752413Ab0C0JTj (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:19:39 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:37155 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752355Ab0C0JTj (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:19:39 -0400 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 2A69D475FEF; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:19:38 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d4937ff1003262240t6159d9c5sc9253f555c3aed1@mail.gmail.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Steven Michalske : > > 3.5 cmd_branch: Handle branching/ tagging > > I'm torn on how the current system handles this, I like all tags to > be tags, and > that if a tag had a branch like behavior (bad SVN users!), that a branch exists > for it, with the tag pointing to its branches head. Ah. This sounds like s discussion, pre-dating my joining the list, of my issue #2 about git-svn - not rendering unmodified tag directories as git tags. It's good that someone wants to rackle this seriously. -- Eric S. Raymond