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Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch: Handle rewritting (very) old style tags which lack tagger

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 9, 2017, 20:23 UTC
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 08:02:33PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
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> > > Should we instead make git-mktag more lenient (possibly with a
> > > command-line option to reduce accidental omissions)?
> > 
> > That sounds sensible. Thanks for injecting a dose of sanity.
> 
> Indeed. I'll add a --allow-missing-tagger option (suggestions for a
> snappier name accepted!) and pass it unconditionally from the filter-
> branch script.

I think that name is the right amount of snappy. It's not meant to be used very often. :)

-Peff
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Message 12 of 12 in “filter-branch: support for incremental update + fix for ancient tag format”
  1. 0/2 filter-branch: support for incremental update + fix for ancient tag formatIan Campbell, Aug 8, 2017
  2. 1/2 filter-branch: Add --state-branch to hold pickled copy of ref mapIan Campbell, Aug 8, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2017
  4. Ian CampbellAug 9, 2017
  5. 2/2 filter-branch: Handle rewritting (very) old style tags which lack taggerIan Campbell, Aug 8, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2017
  7. Ian CampbellAug 9, 2017
  8. Jeff KingAug 9, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2017
  10. Ian CampbellAug 9, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2017
  12. Jeff KingAug 9, 2017

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