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Re: git-tag bug? confusing git fast-export with double tag objects

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 16, 2009, 07:56 UTC
Message-ID
<200905160956.27417.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<4A0E67E9.3020208@op5.se>
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Add a tag with a new name, pointing to the original tag. Try doing what
> Matthias did and then run "git show $tagname". It won't show the original
> tag at all, so people have to resort to low-level commands in order to
> see it, but it will still exist as an object.
Not true. Did you check that?
"git show <tag>" shows the whole chain of objects down to non-tag object.
  tag tag1
  Tagger: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
  Date:   Sat May 16 09:55:13 2009 +0200
  tag1 (retagged)
  tag tag1
  Tagger: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
  Date:   Sat May 16 09:54:58 2009 +0200
  
  
  tag1
  commit 6d3eee4f5e9fde51f3213320b98bda5f325000e4
  [...]
True, the separation between objects could have been made more explicit...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  2. Matthias AndreeMay 14, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2009
  4. Matthias AndreeMay 14, 2009
  5. Michael J GruberMay 14, 2009
  6. Alex RiesenMay 14, 2009
  7. Matthias AndreeMay 14, 2009
  8. Alex RiesenMay 14, 2009
  9. Matthias AndreeMay 14, 2009
  10. Sverre RabbelierMay 14, 2009
  11. Matthias AndreeMay 14, 2009
  12. Brandon CaseyMay 14, 2009
  13. Jeff KingMay 14, 2009
  14. Matthias AndreeMay 14, 2009
  15. Jeff KingMay 15, 2009
  16. Matthias AndreeMay 15, 2009
  17. Jakub NarebskiMay 15, 2009
  18. Johannes SixtMay 15, 2009
  19. Alex RiesenMay 15, 2009
  20. Matthias AndreeMay 15, 2009
  21. Andreas EricssonMay 15, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2009
  23. Andreas EricssonMay 16, 2009
  24. Jakub NarebskiMay 16, 2009
  25. Andreas EricssonMay 16, 2009
  26. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2009
  27. Matthias AndreeMay 19, 2009
  28. Jeff KingMay 19, 2009
  29. Jeff KingMay 16, 2009
  30. Daniel ChengMay 15, 2009

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