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MTMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2013, 11:36 UTC
Message-ID
<20130925113651.GA19023@redhat.com>

Hi! Linus favors one-time use signed tags, e.g. for_linus. Unfortunately if I push to such a tag without -f, I get an error ("already exists"). Would it make sense for there to be an option that makes it behave like a head, and allow fast-forward?

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