From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: error "tag ... already exists" should distinguish between tagging different or same commit:
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:15:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87qzzsisdp.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE1pOi34+btHyV8GbjpFPcJ+2ixu59ce4eAE=Q7F4JEcuJyXnw@mail.gmail.com> (Hilco Wijbenga's message of "Mon, 9 Jun 2025 12:37:41 -0700")
On Jun 09 2025, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> Does it really make sense for that first example to fail, though? "git
> tag hello v1.9.5" is an idempotent operation, isn't it? The second
> attempt is a no-op?
That's not true if an annotated tag is replaced by a lightweight tag.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-09 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-09 7:00 Suggestion: error "tag ... already exists" should distinguish between tagging different or same commit: M Hickford
2025-06-09 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-06-09 19:37 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2025-06-09 20:15 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2025-06-09 20:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-06-09 21:03 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2025-06-10 7:00 ` M Hickford
2025-06-10 14:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-07 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-07 23:12 ` rsbecker
2025-07-11 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-11 19:10 ` [PATCH] tag: allow idempotent "git tag" without "--force" Junio C Hamano
2025-07-11 20:57 ` Justin Tobler
2025-07-11 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
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