From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:14:58 GMT
Subject: Re: How to create tags outside of refs/tags?
Message-ID: <20110222081458.GA11825@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvd0cebi6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:09:37AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >   # tell git to ignore boring stuff
> >   git config tag.ignore 'boring/*'
> >   git config --add tag.ignore 'more-boring/*'
> 
> Hmph, isn't that what "grep -v" was invented for?

Heh. Yeah, but I think the point is that you will want to do this _every
time_, so it saves typing. I guess you could make an alias. Or even more
hack-ish, a custom tag.pager that filters the results. ;)

Yet another option that would work in my example is to use
"interesting/*" as a positive pattern. But that implies that all of the
interesting ones can be grouped in that way.

I dunno. I don't really care much either way. I would probably not be a
user of this feature myself.

> Also it is unclear if the boring tags will or will not be propagated (or
> should or should not be, for that matter) to outer world when you do "git
> push --tags" with your "ignore".  Most likely some people do want to see
> them hidden (e.g. when publishing), and some others do want to be pushed
> (e.g. when backing the repository up).

I think changing the config name to tag.list-ignore would make it more
obvious what is going on. If you don't want to push certain tags, I
think refspecs are the way to do that, and this should be a purely local
display thing.

-Peff