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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 22:31:47 +0000
From:   Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To:     Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: How to convert SVN tags to git tags?
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Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> wrote:
> After converting from SVN to git using git svn init + git svn fetch,
> my SVN tags appear as remote branches in git.  I find many suggestions
> to convert these to git tags by calling git tag -a <tag-name> <branch-name>
> but this gives something like this

Hi Steve, instead of an annotated tag ("-a"), you can use a
lightweight tag by omitting the "-a".

Fwiw, I chose to map SVN "tags" to remote branches in git since
some projects I followed back in the day had moving tags in SVN.