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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:14:45 +0100 (CET)
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Hi,

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:

> Add support for creating a new tag object and retaining the tag message, 
> author, and date when rewriting tags. The gpg signature, if one exists, 
> will be stripped.
> 
> This adds nearly proper tag name filtering to filter-branch. Proper tag 
> name filtering would include the ability to change the tagger, tag date, 
> tag message, and _not_ strip a gpg signature if the tag did not change.

I think such a change in semantics merits a new option.  Maybe 
even something like

	"--rewrite-tags=(strip-signatures|redo-signatures|no-signed)"

or some such.  But maybe not; to rewrite a tag, you have to specify it 
explicitely (or implicitely with --all).

Ciao,
Dscho