Subject: Re: Git / Subversion Interoperability

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:21:20 +0100

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> - Assigning repository-wide revision numbers.  Git doesn't have
> such a concept, but its key to SVN.  These would need to be stored
> in a file so the server can quickly map from revision number to
> Git commit SHA-1.  The reflogs may help here, but currently they
> also expire.  Any reflog that is being used to do this mapping
> cannot be expired, ever.

Another idea is to use lightweight tags for that, especially now
with packed refs support in git.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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