On Thursday, August 16, 2012 12:57:47 AM UTC+2, Andrew Gavin wrote: > > I'm new to the group but have been using git for a while. I have a > question about rebasing and tags. We have a bridge which we use to bridge > a svn repository with a git repository using a script that is run on a > regular basis. This bridging script fetches changes from a remote git > repository and rebases each fetch-head in turn onto the svn branch. > > I would like to reliably carry over the tags from the fetch branches to > the respective branches that I'm going to dcommit. I thought I could do a > rev-list checking the tree-hash of the commit and making sure that they are > the same for the commit on the fetch-line with the one on the branch I'm > rebasing onto. But for some reasons, git svn might be part of it, this > isn't reliable. > > How can I determine which commits correspond to the tagged commits on the > fetch branch (I'm doing a manual rebase -onto at the moment)? Or even > perform a rebase where the tags get copied across? > > Is there an easier way that getting deeper into the rebase command itself? >
This sounds to me like a good idea that hasn't been implemented in git. Kinda like --preserve-merges, there could be be a --preserve-tags in the rebase command. However, there is no such thing. A tag is an alias for a SHA, and when the SHA is rewritten, the tag is pointing at something else. Annoyingly correct :) What I would do is to use something else than tags for this purpose. You know how Gerrit recognizes commits across rebasing through their Change-Id<http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-changeid.html>? Upon committing, a unique id is generated and noted in the commit message, and this is used to recognize that one commits is the same as another after it has been rewritten during code-review. I would just blatantly copy Gerrit's Change-id commit hook<https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit/+/master/gerrit-server/src/main/resources/com/google/gerrit/server/tools/root/hooks/commit-msg>, and go from there. Note that they generate this id for all commits, not just the tagged ones like you want (maybe you can adapt the commit hook for your own purposes, and build something on top that creates tags from these ID's). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/aYjiP4-yTu8J. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
