From: Sebastian Leske Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:29:38 +0000 (+0100) Subject: git-svn: Note about tags. X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd465ce66f685baee2c93e33ca39acafc139c46c;p=git.git 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 --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index b3c812ffe..69decb13b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -967,6 +967,12 @@ 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 -------------