Re: Re* How to generate pull-request with info of signed tag

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> With an entry like below
>
> [remote "github"]
>         fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/origin/*
>         url = git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU.git
>
> when i do git fetch github for-anthony i get the below error

When you give refspecs from the command line like that, the default
refspec remote.github.fetch will not be used and what you configure there
is immaterial.

> [master@QEMU]$ git fetch github for-anthony
>>From git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU
>  * tag               for-anthony -> FETCH_HEAD

Sounds sane.

Does "git cat-file -t FETCH_HEAD" report "tag" (it should)?  After doing
that fetch and inspecting "git log -p ..FETCH_HEAD", you should be able to
do "git merge FETCH_HEAD" and it should be like you did "git pull github
for-anthony".

> Also trying to do
>
> [master@QEMU]$ git fetch git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU.git  for-anthony:aneesh/for-anthony
> error: Trying to write non-commit object 12916047784615b7d8b879d9d39be6c1559e1b1b to branch refs/heads/aneesh/for-anthony
>>From git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU
>  ! [new branch]      for-anthony -> aneesh/for-anthony  (unable to update local ref)
>  * [new tag]         for-anthony -> for-anthony

Sounds sane, too.

> I understand that replacing the above with below works. But we should
> not be required to specify refs/tags there right ?
>
> [master@QEMU]$ git fetch git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU.git  refs/tags/for-anthony:refs/tags/aneesh/for-anthony

If the "for-anthony" name is ambiguous between branches and tags, then you
must disambiguate. I am guessing that the unqualified LHS "for-anthony" is
found in the branch namespace of the remote, and that is why RHS is qualified
with the same refs/heads/ prefix to store it to the branch namespace.

On the other hand, if "for-anthony" name is unambiguous, then you may have
found a bug. I cannot tell.