Re: Issue with gitweb + tag + branch of the same name from master branch commit

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>]

Greetings Jakub,

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 15:49 -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org> writes:
> 
> > I have recently been trying to make a tag and branch of the same name
> 
> But why?  Why do you want to confuse git and yourself?
> 

I stumbled the strangeness in k.o gitweb due to my inexperience with git
tagging+branch..  I absoulutely agree that it makes more sense to use
different names for these, and that is what I am doing from now on.. :-)

> > from a previous <COMMIT> on a master branch on a kernel.org tree using
> > the following commands:
> > 
> > 	# Create the tag:
> > 	git tag -a lio-x.y <COMMIT>
> > 	# Push the tags:
> > 	git push --tags origin
> > 	# Fetch to be sure
> > 	git fetch origin
> > 	# Make tagged branch:
> > 	git checkout -b lio-x.y <COMMIT>
> > 	# Make <NEW_COMMIT> to lio-x.y and commit
> >         git commit frob
> > 	# Switch back to master branch
> > 	git checkout master
> > 	# Push local branch to origin
> > 	git push origin refs/heads/lio-x.y
> > 
> > At this point after pushing to origin, I can do a fresh clone of the
> > tree, and do a 'git checkout origin/lio-x.y and I see '<NEW_COMMIT>',
> > and the logs and blobs look as expected..
> > 
> > However, after checking gitweb log for branch lio-x.y on kernel.org, I
> > only see <COMMIT>, and not <NEW_COMMIT>, and all of the blobs in branch
> > lio-x.y still reference the original <COMMIT>, et al.
> 
> I guess that you meant here gitweb's 'log' / 'shortlog' view linked
> from 'heads' view, don't you?

That is correct..

>  
> > John Hawley has been helping to resolve the issue (I am just going to
> > use different tag/branch names instead), and hpa asked me to report this
> > as it is easy to reproduce with the gitweb version on kernel.org..
> 
> > 22:42 < warthog9> I would got show this to the git people, it *could*
> >                   just be an old bug in gitweb (ours is not particularly
> >                   up to date) but if I can replicate it here easily enough
> >                   I'm guessing there's still a bug elsewhere
> 
> This is an old and long fixed (or rather worked around) issue in
> gitweb, fixed in bf901f8 (gitweb: disambiguate heads and tags withs
> the same name, 2007-12-15)... well if by fixed you can consider
> passing around "fully qualified" refnames, i.e. the 'shortlog' link in
> 'heads' view now uses 'refs/heads/frob', and not only 'frob'.
>

Cool, I am hear it has already been fixed.

--nab