Re: [rfd] auto-following tags upon "git push"?

From: Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdaoden@googlemail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2011, 23:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20110607232301.GB28023@sherwood.local>
In-Reply-To: <7v4o417g9s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

If there would be a free bit somewhere in a tag object (or so):

    $ git tag --autopush -ma "This will be pushed along it's commit" T1

This i would understand at a glance! And it is both, explicit on the one and automatic on the other hand. I.e.: work, work, work - commit & tag, hours pass until internet access and then

    $ if-up-and-push-it-all-and-if-down.sh

.. and that would only do 'cd repo && git push'. But having a short look into tag.c does not give much hope on that. Maybe a new file .git/AUTOPUSH to which all SHA-1 to be pushed automatically are simply appended.

@ Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>    Tell git that v*.* and v*.*.* are release tags (one-time set-up).
>    $ git config --unset-all push.autotag
>    $ git config --add push.autotag 'v*.*'
>    $ git config --add push.autotag 'v*.*.*'

I will blow that one, one of these days.

@ Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> Hmm. Is it a clear enough hint when the user uses an actual tag
> object to make a signed or annotated tag? At least for me,
> private throw-away tags tend to just be refs/tags/foo pointing
> to a commit, and real, for-public-consumption tags at least get
> an annotation, if not a signature.
> [.] Anyway, the problem would be somebody who does something like:
>
>  $ git tag -m "here is a description of how this wip is going" foo-wip
>
> which violates the assumption above. I have no idea how common that is

I did understand that -m/-F required storage and thus force creation of a tag object. But hey - it's a bit odd, isn't it? (Thinking about it some more it's very convenient that the possibility exists. But it will require more than one glance. You know - that's ok for me, given all those features which will make life easier once they're discovered and understood.) -- Ciao, Steffen sdaoden(*)(gmail.com) () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments