From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:04:01 GMT
Subject: Re: tags and patches
Message-ID: <20070613110401.GG21684@artemis.intersec.eu>
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0706130352h3ad6857eie01e1171fdda3991@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:22:23PM +0930, Geoff Russell wrote:
> Dear gits,
> 
> (I'm on 1.5.0.5)
> 
> The last tag made seems to be missing from a patch ... eg.
> 
>        cd ~ ; mkdir myrepo ; cd myrepo
>        git init-db ; echo STUFF > xxx ; git add xxx
>        # work, work, work on xxx
>        git commit -a
>        git tag v1.0
>        # work work work on xxx
>        # then I clone this repository
>        cd /tmp ; git clone ~/myrepo newmyrepo
>        # go back and work some more
>        cd ~/myrepo
>        echo YYY >>xxx
>        git commit -a
>        git tag v1.1
>        # is git commit -a required to commit the tag???
>        git format-patch v1.0
>        cd /tmp/newmyrepo
>        git am ~/myrepo/THEPATCHNAME
>        git tag ls

  git tag ls is not the proper way to list tags. Afaict there isn't any
yet, except: ls .git/refs/tags/

  git tag ls just tagged your HEAD with the name 'ls' which is obviously
not what you meant :)

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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