Sebastian,
I think you have the right idea.
One last question
If a person wants to work on a tag branch, would the right idea be to  
create new branch on it as to not screw up the previous tag?

On Feb 11, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Sebastian Harl wrote:

quoted text
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:56:11AM +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
>> On 2008.02.09 20:44:59 -0600, Sam Granieri Jr wrote:
>>> Right now, git-svn import (or clone) will convert tags and  
>>> branches as
>>> remote branches.
>>> I would like it if git could pick up subversion tags and translate  
>>> them
>>> as git tags upon importing
>>
>> SVN tags aren't like git tags. A "tag" in SVN is just another  
>> directory,
>> which you can modify at will.
>
> Well, a SVN tag could be represented as a Git branch _and_ a Git tag
> pointing to the head of that branch. Whenever any such "tag branch"
> advances, the user should be notified, the user responsible for the
> further commits to the SVN "tag" should be seriously hurt and the Git
> tag should be overwritten (git tag -f).
>
> Sam, is that basically what you want?
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
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