[plt-dev] Migrating branches to git

On Apr 10, Robby Findler wrote:
> Another alternative is, of course, to not migrate that stuff (right?)

Sure.  That's roughly what I meant in the last sentence -- you just
recreate any tags you want in your own clone of the repository.

(But I will of course have git tags that correspond to the svn release
tags.)


> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > On Apr 10, David Herman wrote:
> >> Forgive me for seeking Cliff Notes, but if we've only used branches
> >> as "tags" -- to wit, branches but no merges -- are we ok without
> >> additional action on our part?
> >
> > These fall under the category of branches that you'd want to preserve
> > in the migration.  That is: I need to be told about them explicitly,
> > but in addition I need to be told to convert them to a tag.  But if
> > this is truly like a tag, with no commits on the branch, then you can
> > just tell me which revision number it is, and creating it in the
> > converted git repository is even easier this way.
> >
> > And the same applies for the post-migration part: once the repository
> > is set up, you clone it and get your tag, then I remove it from the
> > server and you keep it (unless it's a tag with a public utility).
> > This means that an alternative for all of this is to check the commit
> > message that you're interested in, and then create the tag yourself in
> > the converted git and avoid all the hassle.

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