From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2010-02-28T04:03:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28362] Re: [ANN] Toward rich diversity of Ruby	development.

Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> > Just FYI, we also have a git mirror at
> > http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby and the big difference between the
> > two I see is that in case of rubyspec's mirror we have proper branches
> > and tags set, while in http://github.com/ruby/ruby both branches *and*
> > tags are mapped into git branches, which is a bit inconvenient, since
> > you end up with 242 branches and 0 tags.
> 
> I assume this is because SVN tags are not directly mappable to git tags.  Those
> tags/* branches are made via ``git svn init --stdlayout'', so I suspect this is
> the way it should be.

Correct, SVN tags don't map directly to git tags, so git svn makes SVN
tags into git branches by default.

> But yes, this is ugly.  Should we move those branches into tags?  I'm in
> neutral on this point.

Since Ruby project appears to never change tags, then yes.

New versions of git-svn (git >= 1.6.5) should be able to map SVN tags
into the refs/tags/* namespace (instead of refs/remotes/tags/*).  Just
edit .git/config.

-- 
Eric Wong