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 18:14:51 +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> <7viqzc18j9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <47E7D818.7090501@nrlssc.navy.mil> <47E7DFAD.4060209@nrlssc.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Brandon Casey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 24 18:15:31 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 1JdqGf-0006oL-TU for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:15:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755383AbYCXROt (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:14:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755223AbYCXROt (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:14:49 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43984 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753510AbYCXROs (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:14:48 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2008 17:14:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp044) with SMTP; 24 Mar 2008 18:14:46 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18DumkBnQMD5n5IRDR/PW5LFji59lRni75la+LoDA ZZeNOyazeSC/GZ X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <47E7DFAD.4060209@nrlssc.navy.mil> 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 Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Brandon Casey wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Brandon Casey wrote: > > > >> So right now, tags matching the refspec are rewritten. They are > >> currently rewritten with a lightweight tag. > > > > That is unintended. My understanding of a tag was always that it is > > something immutable. I mean, _really_ immutable. If you released a > > certain version, then that is tagged. You must not rewrite the tag. > > Ever. > > Then what is the intended behavior for --tag-name-filter? To be honest, I wanted to rip that part out before posting the initial filter-branch patches, and forgot/was too lazy. IMO there should be clean semantics first, and a default mode that does _not_ rewrite tags at all first. Maybe something as in fast-export. Ciao, Dscho