Re: [PATCH] Ability to automaticaly push tags to remote repositories.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Jun 2, 2006, 20:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20060602205836.GG10488@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <442BD562.3030207@people.pl>

Dear diary, on Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:56:02PM CEST, I got a letter where Krzysiek Pawlik <krzysiek.pawlik@people.pl> said that...

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> - From `cg-push --long-help`:
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> - -t TAG::
>         Tells cg-push to also push the given tag. Note that in the
>         future, cg-push should push tags automatically. Also note
>         that even if you pass `cg-push` the '-t' arguments, your
>         HEAD is still pushed as well in addition to the tags.
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> One of possible ways of doing it is in attached patch. Comments,
> suggestions?

Well, this works properly only when you ever push to a single repository, which many people don't. Besides, if you have two branches, push branch A but tag a commit only on branch B, you will now be pushing an invalid tag since the other end won't have the branch B and thus the tagged commit.

A better way would be to use git-ls-remote --tags to get the list of remote tags and compare that with the list of local tags, then push those tags that tag commits on the branch we are pushing and the other end does not have them.

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