On Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:28:52 UTC+1, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: > > > 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). >
Thomas very interesting idea, thanks. I'll have a play with the hook. I note there was a patch for --preserve-tags that doesn't seem to have made it into git. Probably for the reason you said (tag is an alias for a sha). http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/79433/match=preserve+tags It did make me think of rolling a version of rebase in the bridge. -- 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/-/cXZCyx2gKmAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
