Push --follow tags does not agree with its documentation
- From
Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
- Date
- Dec 4, 2015, 21:41 UTC
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- <1449265306.29869.6.camel@kaarsemaker.net>
When deleting an annotated tag with git push -d while having push.follwTags set to true, causes push to push other annotated tags. I was surprised by this as this does not agree with the documentation
Push all the refs that would be pushed without this option, and also push annotated tags in refs/tags that are missing from the remote but are pointing at commit-ish that are reachable from the refs being pushed. This can also be specified with configuration variable push.followTags. For more information, see push.followTags in git-config(1).
Note also that the tag pushed in error is not even reachable from the tag that's being deleted.
$ git config push.followTags true
$ git push origin --delete v2.5.1 To /tmp/whelk.git/ - [deleted] v2.5.1
$ git push origin --delete 2.5
Counting objects: 1, done. Writing objects: 100% (1/1), 166 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 1 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0) To /tmp/whelk.git/ - [deleted] 2.5 * [new tag] v2.5.1 -> v2.5.1
Which one is correct in this case, the behaviour or the documentation?
-- Dennis Kaarsemaker www.kaarsemaker.net