converting git branch to git tag

Question

I am looking for the best and safest way to convert a git branch to a git tag. When porting over a svn repository by hand, I basically copied over all our branches and we h

Answer 1

As I understand it, you want to create tags instead of branches and thereby prevent others to continue committing on these branches.

Unfortunately, you cannot prevent people from creating branches from wherever they want, especially since Git is a decentralized VCS. However, you can decide whether a commit can be pushed to a central repository. So you could write hooks that would forbid commits that have specific commits in their ancestors.