Re: Pulling tags from git.git

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andreas Ericsson:
> 
> [lightweight tags]
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> The current implementation is rather counter-intuitive because it's
> much easier to create lightweight tags, and you wonder why they aren't
> replicated by fetches (but some other tags are).


Well, you wouldn't want to go through the trouble of writing a 
tag-message for a temporary tag, but signing and writing a short note 
for a tag that you intend those who share your workload to have is not 
that much of a bother imo.

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