From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:26:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [EGIT] Checking out signed tags fails
Message-ID: <20080920002648.GG13139@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <2c6b72b30809161148p2b4ce08fh32ff5717ca85e773@mail.gmail.com>

Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 14:58, Jonas Flodén <jonas.floden@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When trying to check-out a signed tag I get the following Error:
> > Unable to switch branches
> >
> > Reason:
> >  Mapping commit: refs/tags/v1.3.1.1
> >
> > And in details:
> > Object XXX is not a commit.
> >
> > The object ID shown is actually the id for the tag object and not the
> > tagged commit.
> >
> > This was tested with the latest master. It seemed commit 1f460e2 (Tests
> > and fixes for dereferencing tags in Repository.resolve(), 2008-09-12)
> > would fix it, but it didn't.
> 
> The fixes are only for the code path where reference expressions needs
> to be resolved. From what I understand, the problem you have
> encountered is due to resolve() falling back to using resolveSimple()
> which doesn't dereference any tags. Perhaps EGit could postfix ^{} or
> ^{commit} to the tag name before calling mapCommit(), or whatever it
> uses?

Yea, a ^{} is missing somwhere...  this is now in the issue tracker.
I'm behind and probably won't look at it more this week, but its
probably a simple thing in the checkout UI.

-- 
Shawn.