From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name filtering Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:53:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <1206031893-29599-1-git-send-email-casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> <47E298A5.6050508@nrlssc.navy.mil> <7vr6e01xja.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Brandon Casey , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 24 11:54:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdkJr-0002kc-QG for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:54:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757363AbYCXKxm (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:53:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757342AbYCXKxm (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:53:42 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59478 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757293AbYCXKxl (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:53:41 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2008 10:53:39 -0000 Received: from host86-148-26-43.range86-148.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.148.26.43] by mail.gmx.net (mp056) with SMTP; 24 Mar 2008 11:53:39 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+jHmA47uejhsioDlqSIjiWcbv55OJmxQfMOTYU+t WkATDby0p5ngEa X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <7vr6e01xja.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If you tell filter-branch to filter a branch A and a tag T, as the > command is advertised to rewrite positive refs that were given from the > command line, isn't it natural to expect that the command would attempt > its best effort to rewrite such a tag object? The thing is: signed tags cannot be rewritten. As simple as that. They could be recreated if the committer happens to be the original tagger, but even then, it is a rewrite of _tags_, which are _not_ supposed to be moving targets. So it was very much on purpose to disallow rewriting them by default. Ciao, Dscho