From: greened@obbligato.org (David A. Greene)
To: Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git subtree stumbles over annotated tags
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 18:02:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iny7ovzi.fsf@waller.obbligato.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56EAA5DC.1040801@googlemail.com> (Gregor Jasny's message of "Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:41:00 +0100")
Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> On 10/03/16 16:51, Gregor Jasny wrote:
>> today I discovered that it's a bad idea to "git subtree pull" from an
>> annotated tag. This issue got discussed in those two threads:
>>
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/247503> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/248395>
>> I was under the impression that it is fixed in recent versions of git
>> but my homebrew 2.7.0 still behaves badly. If I run the attached script
>> to reproduce the issue I get the following error message:
>
> For the record: this bug was already fixed in November:
> https://github.com/git/git/commit/5d65fe312e22594b7fec7349945fb0072987716b#diff-59f70cbe935ec223e3df413b94cab740
>
> Would it make sense to cherry-pick it into 2.7.x?
I wouldn't object to it if you can prepare the patch but git-subtree is
under heavy development and I don't have the free cycles to maintain a
"release" version of it.
-David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-21 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 15:51 Git subtree stumbles over annotated tags Gregor Jasny
2016-03-17 12:41 ` Gregor Jasny
2016-05-21 23:02 ` David A. Greene [this message]
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