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Re: git-pull and tag objects

From
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date
Feb 12, 2007, 16:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20070212162745.GB2741@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To
<7vy7n5gs0y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:52:29PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Although it is correct that the people who already saw the
> original tag would not lose the tag object from their repository
> when you publish a replacement tag, we have _always_ overwritten
> the refs/tags/$tag to point at the new one, effectively losing
> the original.

So I have a suspicion that I have multiple tag objects with the same tag name (E2FSPROGS-1_26), from doing an hg conversion. Is there an easy way to search all of the tag objects in my git repository to see if this is the case, so I can delete them lest they cause any confusion/problems?

						- Ted
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Message 19 of 26 in “git-pull and tag objects”
  1. Alex BenneeFeb 8, 2007
  2. Alex RiesenFeb 9, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2007
  4. git-fetch: document automatic tag following.Junio C Hamano, Feb 10, 2007
  5. Theodore TsoFeb 10, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsFeb 10, 2007
  7. Jakub NarebskiFeb 10, 2007
  8. Linus TorvaldsFeb 10, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2007
  10. Jakub NarebskiFeb 12, 2007
  11. Theodore TsoFeb 11, 2007
  12. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2007
  14. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2007
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2007
  17. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2007
  18. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2007
  19. Theodore TsoFeb 12, 2007
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2007
  21. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2007
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2007
  23. Johannes SchindelinFeb 14, 2007
  24. Linus TorvaldsFeb 14, 2007
  25. Jakub NarebskiFeb 15, 2007
  26. Johannes SchindelinFeb 15, 2007

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