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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: rae l <crquan@gmail.com>, Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: please consider remove those tags named master, which is ambigous with master branch
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:56:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DA8D76.1070207@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0809240844y42218bedqe0e1eb22c067fcc3@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:
> 2008/9/23 rae l <crquan@gmail.com>:
>> To Git developers:
>>  I found that different git subcommand have inconsitent processing
>> about ambiguous refname,
>>
>> git show will take "master" tag first,
>> while git tag -v will take "master" branch first,
>>
>> So what's your suggestion to fix this? Just simple remove ambiguous refnames?
> 
> You can use "refs/tags/master" and "refs/heads/master"...

Apart from that..

"git tag -v" taking a branch *at all* is not something we want to
happen, as it's supposed to verify the pgp signature of a signed
tag. Are you absolutely 100% certain that "git tag -v" tries to
verify refs/heads/master as a tag object?

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-24 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <91b13c310808310948r5e9e825as27bcdf381137e179@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-23 14:46 ` please consider remove those tags named master, which is ambigous with master branch rae l
2008-09-24 15:44   ` Alex Riesen
2008-09-24 18:56     ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]

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