[plt-dev] Migrating branches to git

Another alternative is, of course, to not migrate that stuff (right?)

Robby

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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