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From: Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git subtree stumbles over annotated tags
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:41:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EAA5DC.1040801@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E19809.5040305@googlemail.com>

Hello,

On 10/03/16 16:51, Gregor Jasny wrote:
> today I discovered that it's a bad idea to "git subtree pull" from an
> annotated tag. This issue got discussed in those two threads:
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/247503
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/248395
>
> I was under the impression that it is fixed in recent versions of git
> but my homebrew 2.7.0 still behaves badly. If I run the attached script
> to reproduce the issue I get the following error message:

For the record: this bug was already fixed in November:
https://github.com/git/git/commit/5d65fe312e22594b7fec7349945fb0072987716b#diff-59f70cbe935ec223e3df413b94cab740

Would it make sense to cherry-pick it into 2.7.x?

Thanks,
Gregor

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-17 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10 15:51 Git subtree stumbles over annotated tags Gregor Jasny
2016-03-17 12:41 ` Gregor Jasny [this message]
2016-05-21 23:02   ` David A. Greene

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