From: Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:48:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [EGIT] Checking out signed tags fails
Message-ID: <2c6b72b30809161148p2b4ce08fh32ff5717ca85e773@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <gaoaif$2up$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 14:58, Jonas Flodén <jonas.floden@gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to check-out a signed tag I get the following Error:
> Unable to switch branches
>
> Reason:
>  Mapping commit: refs/tags/v1.3.1.1
>
> And in details:
> Object XXX is not a commit.
>
> The object ID shown is actually the id for the tag object and not the
> tagged commit.
>
> This was tested with the latest master. It seemed commit 1f460e2 (Tests
> and fixes for dereferencing tags in Repository.resolve(), 2008-09-12)
> would fix it, but it didn't.

The fixes are only for the code path where reference expressions needs
to be resolved. From what I understand, the problem you have
encountered is due to resolve() falling back to using resolveSimple()
which doesn't dereference any tags. Perhaps EGit could postfix ^{} or
^{commit} to the tag name before calling mapCommit(), or whatever it
uses?

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Jonas Fonseca