From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:26:29 GMT
Subject: Re: GC of alternate object store
Message-ID: <20120831162629.GA18215@troll08.europe.nokia.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbohstlih.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:03:34AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org> writes:
> 
> >> Doesn't
> >> 
> >> 	git push $over_there 'refs/*:refs/remotes/mine/*'
> >> 
> >> push your tag v1.0 to refs/remotes/mine/v1.0 over there?  The
> >> version of git I ship seems to do this just fine.
> >> 
> > as i wrote before, i'm pulling, not pushing,...
> 
> You would need to decline the automatic tag following with --no-tags
> (which in hindsight is misnamed; it really means "do not auto-follow
> tags"), like so:
> 
> 	cd $over_there &&
>         git fetch --no-tags $my_repository 'refs/*:refs/remotes/mine/*'
> 
> Otherwise, you will also get tags in refs/tags/.
> 
git seems to be happily ignoring that flag.
  git fetch --prune --all --no-tags
still re-populates the tags after i delete them manually.