Re: Problem with cogito and Linux tree tags

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Jun 3, 2005, 07:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20050603072847.GC16619@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <429F92CA.9060908@gorzow.mm.pl>

Dear diary, on Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 01:14:18AM CEST, I got a letter where Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@gorzow.mm.pl> told me that...

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> Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:
> 
> >Dan Holmsand wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>$ git-cat-file tag 06f6d9e2f140466eeb41e494e14167f90210f89d
> >>
> >>which tells you that v2.6.12-rc5 is commit
> >>2a24ab628aa7b190be32f63dfb6d96f3fb61580a
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >Ok.  This doesn't work too. That cogito version really works fine, but I
> >had that branch cloned from a local repository gotten from rsync and
> >probably that's the problem.
> >The tags weren't propagated, but they should be.
> >
> >AstralStorm
> >  
> >
> Well, new cogito-0.11.1 (300ab153620d2492e824cb3561c32debb5e80bf8) has
> this fixed and picked up missing objects automatically.

Oh yes, I wanted to mention it in this thread but forgot.

However note that what it does now is awful and it's just a quick'n'dirty fix to make it mostly work. I guess a better way would be to teach the pull tools to download refs/ files too and do the proper dependency things from them too (in addition to the passed commit id).

I will need to go back and look again at the set of Daniel's patches which implemented something like that.

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