<p dir="ltr">On 16 Apr 2014 07:09, "Richard Wilbur" <<a href="mailto:richard.wilbur@gmail.com">richard.wilbur@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> To quote some documentation I just wrote for the new --no-tags option<br>
> for bzr fast-export:<br>
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> Since bzr uses per-branch tags and git/hg use per-repo tags, the<br>
> way bzr fast-export presently emits tags (unconditional reset &<br>
> new ref) may result in clashes when several different branches<br>
> are imported into single git/hg repo. If this occurs, use the<br>
> bzr fast-export option --no-tags during the export of one or more<br>
> branches to avoid the issue.<br>
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> Would there be a better way to treat the export of tags in bzr<br>
> fast-export in order to soften--if not eliminate--the issue of tag<br>
> clashes as outlined above? I'm not intimately acquainted with the<br>
> details of this one.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The thought occurs that prepending the branch name to all tags would work as a way of getting them into the new repository.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Providing an option for a custom global prefix for all tags would probably also be helpful, and require code changes in the same places</p>