From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Jabber, question on push,pull and --tags, and no help but jabber Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:58:24 -0700 Message-ID: <7v1uz6alkv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20110606130205.GA41674@sherwood.local> <9215090.63086.1307370716794.JavaMail.trustmail@mail1.terreactive.ch> <20110606153405.GA15894@victor.terreactive.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael J Gruber , Steffen Daode Nurpmeso , git@vger.kernel.org To: Victor Engmark X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 06 19:58:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QTe4Z-00007J-ST for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:58:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754441Ab1FFR6j (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:58:39 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:60235 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751607Ab1FFR6i (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:58:38 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC4B476E; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:00:46 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=yu2V7ptkDInrIJ53ocVMklzRK6I=; b=B8fUqw J4GlyN99TKvRPlOnpRKKHLkUgCCFy0CEj3vb5STP+maOdvABxjvuf/KwQzyn5L+1 F7Fx9tsXhvWsuJKe0QIJgg/jxMBzdbC5zdO7sLZHMTdUaz5x/u1k774m3ijOGUYo Q+iOglVsyMhC9eflIt3fUn2ZbKDXgexU3MH0g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=QLmWEBoD0iaBXwRk9iDo/M2z+6EqjePh ydo9DEbOcFbtx9qg867eOpFVzRbgIZuSVqG4FpQJRfiVS+tA9brmlz/kGhP4fIeh smRXzT0nzHOcub3F00CsuJoDSznhkAi8j+/V7lZ1D9jDGX9GAEkaa5bRJf+GUm1b q7zG+bcOQ5w= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A29476C; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E50D9476A; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:00:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20110606153405.GA15894@victor.terreactive.ch> (Victor Engmark's message of "Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:34:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E4DF4B94-9066-11E0-B1D5-EA23C7C1A288-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Victor Engmark writes: >> More seriously, tags are not part of the "remotes layout", so when you >> push them and others pull them they overwrite their tags if there's a >> name clash. > > That's odd - I wouldn't expect anything handled by Git to be simply > overwritten without merging. Is there some technical reason for this, or > is it just not implemented yet? Branches are something you work on by looking at other people's progress, so remote layout to copy his master branch to refs/remotes/his/master so that you can compare it with yours with "git diff his/master master" or merge his effort into yours with "git merge his/master" makes sense. Tags are something that is to be _shared_ amongst people, and having v1.4.3 that is different depending on which member of the same project you ask is a road to insanity, hence we don't do refs/remotes/his/v1.4.3 that could be different from the project's global refs/tags/v1.4.3 to reduce the risk of confusion.