Re: git-push [--all] and tags

[Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>]

martin f krafft wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> `git-push --all --tags` does not work because git-push ends up
> calling git-send-pack --all refs/tags/*, which the latter does not
> deal with.
>
> Looking at the code, it seems that previously, --all would push
> everything, not just refs/heads/*. What's the reason that this was
> changed? Why aren't tags considered part of --all?
>
> If I wanted to fix this, so that --all pushes heads and --all --tags
> pushes heads and tags, I could do so in two ways:
>
>   1. instead of --all, pass refs/heads/* to git-send-pack
>   2. add --tags to git-send-pack
>
> which of these two would you prefer and why?
>   

Think is, pushing tags is considered to be something that needs to be
done very explicitly; the convention, after all, is that published tags
are forever.  Whereas branches change all the time.  So, pushing tags
should require an extra flag.

Sam.