From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:18:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Q: how can i find the upstream merge point of a commit?
Message-ID: <20110608151819.GA11814@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <7vlixc2wpq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>


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

> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> 
> > Still it's not entirely logical that 'foreign' tags invade another 
> > branch this aggressively.
> 
> Is it a problem for "describe", or is the root of the problem that 
> git allowed you to slurp in 'foreign' tags that you do not care 
> about?

Well, if i checked out a linux-next related branch i'd expect those 
tags to go live, but if i stayed on -git i'd expect only Linus's tags 
to live.

I would not expect the linux-next tags to go away altogether - i 
added it as a remote, so i'd expect to see 'its' tags when i check it 
out.

at least that's my naive expectation from a 'remote' repository - if 
there's a better way to think about this then i'm eager to improve
:-)

Thanks,

	Ingo