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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git / Subversion Interoperability
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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> - Assigning repository-wide revision numbers. =A0Git doesn't have
> such a concept, but its key to SVN. =A0These would need to be stored
> in a file so the server can quickly map from revision number to
> Git commit SHA-1. =A0The reflogs may help here, but currently they
> also expire. =A0Any reflog that is being used to do this mapping
> cannot be expired, ever.

Another idea is to use lightweight tags for that, especially now
with packed refs support in git.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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