Re: How to create tags outside of refs/tags?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 22, 2011, 15:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20110222152723.GA23353@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3wrks756a.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:09:14AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> > 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.
> 
> You meant `tag.listIgnore`, weren't you?  No hyphens in config
> variable names.

Sure.

> About refspecs: we currently do not support negative refspecs, do we?
> (IIRC there was proposal to use '!' or '-' as prefix for them).  So we
> can't currently exclude refs/tags/private/* while including
> refs/tags/v*?

Yeah, I think you might be stuck enumerating the tags you want via refspec. But I stand by my statement; if this feature is something we want, it should be purely about listing tags. I don't want to get into weird tag-specific config affecting the what we push. If somebody wants negative refspecs, that can be a separate patch.

But like I said before, I am lukewarm on the patch in the first place.

-Peff