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From: "Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-svn tags and branches
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:06:25 +0200
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[did it again, sorry for the double-sent]

On 8/29/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

The problem here is that you can have THREE things: the tag foo, the
branch foo, and the 'branch' under the tag foo, which is not the
branch foo.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta