Re: git-svn tags and branches

"Giuseppe Bilotta" [off-list ref] writes:

On 8/29/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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"Giuseppe Bilotta" [off-list ref] writes:

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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]

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 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?

That's the "Yes but" part.  You need to know what you are doing.

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.

[did it again, sorry for the double-sent]

On 8/29/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] 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