Re: git-svn tags and branches

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

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?


-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta