From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:21:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/UTF-8] gitk: properly deal with tag names containing / (slash) Message-ID: <18353.664.502848.772753@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20080211105741.16353.qmail@d33cfe7d8389ec.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> Gerrit Pape writes: > When creating a tag through gitk, and the tag name includes a slash (or > slashes), gitk errors out in a popup window. This patch makes gitk use > 'git tag' to create the tag instead of modifying files in refs/tags/, > which fixes the issue; if 'git tag' throws an error, gitk pops up with > the error message. Thanks, applied. Paul.