From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Pulling tags from git.git Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:24:45 +0100 Message-ID: <441064DD.2010903@op5.se> References: <4dd15d180603061044h3f70d48bk8006c15e605fdca1@mail.gmail.com> <4dd15d180603061054k36d1a434se7377ded1b3240bb@mail.gmail.com> <440D5285.3050401@op5.se> <7voe0ilf25.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <440D7A7D.8070507@op5.se> <87zmk0dq75.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 09 18:25:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHOsc-0000w0-1p for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:24:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750799AbWCIRYr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:24:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750937AbWCIRYr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:24:47 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:53987 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750799AbWCIRYr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:24:47 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (host-213.88.215.14.addr.se.sn.net [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9906BCFF; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:24:45 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Florian Weimer In-Reply-To: <87zmk0dq75.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Florian Weimer wrote: > * Andreas Ericsson: > > [lightweight tags] > > >>I'm fairly sure we shouldn't. The default update-hook prevents them >>(if enabled), and I can't for the life of me think of why anyone would >>want to distribute such tags. > > > The current implementation is rather counter-intuitive because it's > much easier to create lightweight tags, and you wonder why they aren't > replicated by fetches (but some other tags are). Well, you wouldn't want to go through the trouble of writing a tag-message for a temporary tag, but signing and writing a short note for a tag that you intend those who share your workload to have is not that much of a bother imo. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231