Re: Pushing tag from a partial clone

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 7/20/2020 7:44 AM, Son Luong Ngoc wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> At $day_job, we are trying to push tags to a repo from a partial clone copy.
> However it seems like this push would requires the partial clone copy to download more objects?
> Is this intended?
> 
> Reproduce:
> 
> 	mkdir repo && cd repo
> 	git init
> 	git remote add origin git@domain.com:path/repo.git
> 	git fetch --filter=tree:0 --no-tags --prune origin <commit-id>
> 	git sparse-checkout init --cone
> 	git checkout --force <commit-id>
> 	git tag -a sluongng-test -m "Test push from partial clone"
> 	git push HEAD:refs/tags/sluongng-test
> 	<git starts to download objects>
> 
> Ideally we would like to be able to push tag from a shallow + partial clone repo without 
> having to download extra objects if possible.
> We would like to keep the required repo to the absolute minimum.
> 	git fetch --depth 1 --filter=tree:0 --no-tags --prune origin <commit-id>
> 
> Creating and pushing tags should not require local repo to have trees/blobs in it?
> 
> Git version: 2.27.0

Could you try this again with 2.28.0-rc1? I think Jonathan
Tan added the "no-fetch" flag in more places since 2.27.0,
and this might already be fixed.

Thanks,
-Stolee