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From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:36:14 -0800
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On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 15:08, fkater@googlemail.com
<fkater@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to completely migrate from subversion to git
> (and NOT have subversion enabled anymore). However, I need
> to be able to lookup the old subversion revision numbers
> later from the git repository. The default seems to be
> though, that they are replaced by git sha-1 keys.
>
> It would be completely o.k. here to use git tags for all
> those subversion revision numbers (if possible), so, to
> create a tag for each subversion revision. However, I have
> neither seen any option in git nor found a script which does
> that upon cloning (converting) a subversion repo into a git
> repo.
>
> Is there a way to do so?
>
> Thank You
> =C2=A0Felix
>

There's not really any need to tag every revision with the SVN
revision number.  If you use svn-all-fast-export, or git-svn to do the
SVN -> Git conversion, then the SVN revision numbers will end up as
part of the commit message when it is in Git.

-Jacob