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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: can I remove or move a tag in a remote repository?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:42:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wt5rffbm.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (raw)

Hello,

Periodically, I sync the coreutils git repository to an otherwise
read-only CVS repo, and use a cheap git tag named "cvs-head" to keep
track of the point to which the latest sync operation has run.
Then, after every sync-git-to-cvs operation, I run this:

  git-tag -f -m "most recent version that has been sync'd to cvs" cvs-head $sha1

Also periodically, I push my git working dir/repo to a public place,

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=summary

-----------------
Just today, I have finally pushed tags to that public repo, including the
"cvs-head" one (before there were no tags in the remote repo).  But now,
I've just done a local sync-to-cvs operation, which has resulted in
moving that tag to point to a different point in the git repo.

Here's the problem:
When I try to push the new tags, git-push fails:

  $ git-push -f --tags ssh+git://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/coreutils master:refs/heads/master
  updating 'refs/tags/cvs-head'
    from 2fd3fd29a8b40be695bc2327c8cd3bd33e521100
    to   db18f53ffb221e9957124d8af81c11a7e350ac3b
  ...
  Total 1, written 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
  Unpacking 1 objects
  error: denying non-fast forward; you should pull first

I get the same error also when using --force.

Perhaps I shouldn't push the cvs-head tag at all.
A few questions:
  - is there a way to say "push all tags matching /COREUTILS-*/"
      or to say "push all tags, except the ones on this list"?
  - is there a way to remove the cvs-head tag from the remote directory?
      Note: I don't have shell access there.  I can request that someone
      with shell access do it, but shouldn't have to resort to that.
  - is there some way to make "git push" do what I want, and update the
      offending tag in the remote repo?

Thanks for listening,


             reply	other threads:[~2006-11-19 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-19 18:42 Jim Meyering [this message]
2006-11-19 18:54 ` can I remove or move a tag in a remote repository? Jakub Narebski
2006-11-28 11:08 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-11-28 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-29  9:54   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-29 10:55     ` Jim Meyering
2006-11-29 11:45       ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-29 13:46         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-29 11:47       ` Andy Whitcroft

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