From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Levedahl Subject: [BUG} git-fetch - won't fetch wildcarded tags Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:59:08 -0400 Message-ID: <46BD25FC.1050201@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 11 04:59:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJhCW-0006Bw-8L for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:59:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761054AbXHKC71 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:59:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761133AbXHKC71 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:59:27 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:38273 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761054AbXHKC70 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:59:26 -0400 Received: from [192.168.100.117] ([71.246.233.117]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JML00HAN9MK2CZ9@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:59:08 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: git fetch does not seem to handle refs/tags/* refspecs, at least no from bundles... git>git bundle create /tmp/foo v1.5.2 git>git ls-remote /tmp/foo 8b1e5575ab18757272e86c5ec7a10411bbaa3662 refs/tags/v1.5.2 git>git tag -d v1.5.2 Deleted tag v1.5.2. git>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' * refusing to create funny ref 'tags/*' locally Huh? but... git>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/v1.5.2:refs/tags/v1.5.2' * refs/tags/v1.5.2: storing tag 'v1.5.2' of /tmp/foo tag: 8b1e557 What's going on? This is a severe limitation of the utility of bundles to transmit tagged versions. Mark