From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch: Handle rewritting (very) old style tags which lack tagger
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 20:02:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1502305353.2735.33.camel@hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlgms7nbl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 08:50 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:06:20AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >
> >> Such as v2.6.12-rc2..v2.6.13-rc3 in the Linux kernel source tree.
> >>
> >> Insert a fake tag header, since newer `git mktag` wont accept the
> input
> >> otherwise:
> >
> > Hmm. Now your resulting tag will have this crufty "unknown@example.
> com"
> > header baked into it, won't it?
> >
> > Should we instead make git-mktag more lenient (possibly with a
> > command-line option to reduce accidental omissions)?
>
> That sounds sensible. Thanks for injecting a dose of sanity.
Indeed. I'll add a --allow-missing-tagger option (suggestions for a
snappier name accepted!) and pass it unconditionally from the filter-
branch script.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-09 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-08 8:06 [PATCH 0/2] filter-branch: support for incremental update + fix for ancient tag format Ian Campbell
2017-08-08 8:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] filter-branch: Add --state-branch to hold pickled copy of ref map Ian Campbell
2017-08-08 20:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-09 7:57 ` Ian Campbell
2017-08-08 8:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch: Handle rewritting (very) old style tags which lack tagger Ian Campbell
2017-08-08 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-09 7:43 ` Ian Campbell
2017-08-09 10:20 ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 15:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-09 19:02 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2017-08-09 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-09 20:23 ` Jeff King
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