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[BUG] git reflog on a tag tries to do something unexpected

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YDYann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Date
Apr 19, 2013, 07:08 UTC
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<20130419090819.40f7c071@chalon.bertin.fr>

git reflog, when applied to a tag, should surely bail out saying there is reflog for the requested reference. However, instead it spits out a single line of abbreviated sha1's of an ancestry walk:

$ git reflog --decorate v1.8.2.1 5bda18c (tag: v1.8.2.1) 6466fbb 2137ce0 (tag: v1.8.1.6) 4bbb830 0e9b327 ...

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  1. Yann DirsonApr 19, 2013
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