Re: Pulling tags from git.git

From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-03-08 01:37:36
Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
>>
>>
>>> With the git or git+ssh protocol, tags will be autofollowed
>>> when you do a pull (only signed tags, I think).  The
>>> auto-following is done by detecting tags that are fetched,
>>
>>
>> Ah, you are correct.  We do not follow lightweight tags; I am
>> not sure if we should.
>>
> 
> I'm fairly sure we shouldn't. The default update-hook prevents them (if 
> enabled), and I can't for the life of me think of why anyone would want 
> to distribute such tags.
> 
> OTOH, preventing unannotated tags from being pushed seems like a better 
> way than to not have the ability to auto-follow those same tags. After 
> all, it's better to discourage than to disallow.
> 

Before you do this, please explain why unannotated tags are not useful, 
and so should not be allowed to be pushed.
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Received on Wed Mar 08 01:38:34 2006

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