From: Sebastian Leske Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:29:38 +0000 (+0100) Subject: git-svn: Note about tags. X-Git-Tag: v1.8.0.3~2^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/008c208c2c54f7bb97bfb7bc5dc606a4eb0d6837?hp=--cc git-svn: Note about tags. Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske Acked-by: Eric Wong Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- 008c208c2c54f7bb97bfb7bc5dc606a4eb0d6837 diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 84bff9b447..346f1b766f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -960,6 +960,12 @@ the possible corner cases (git doesn't do it, either). Committing renamed and copied files is fully supported if they're similar enough for git to detect them. +In SVN, it is possible (though discouraged) to commit changes to a tag +(because a tag is just a directory copy, thus technically the same as a +branch). When cloning an SVN repository, 'git svn' cannot know if such a +commit to a tag will happen in the future. Thus it acts conservatively +and imports all SVN tags as branches, prefixing the tag name with 'tags/'. + CONFIGURATION -------------