From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 20:23:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch: Handle rewritting (very) old style tags which lack tagger
Message-ID: <20170809202342.si5d72s44v3xywvq@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1502305353.2735.33.camel@hellion.org.uk>

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 08:02:33PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:

> > > 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