Re: Lightweight tag ?

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2009, 13:56 UTC
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0901120556x279f320oe693304dd2452050@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <496B3DA8.1040308@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

> Your test above confirms that the description is correct and nothing is
> missing. "git push" pushes explicitly listed refspecs (or : as a
> default). It pushes tags (light and heavy) when asked to.
>

So do you mean that the only way I have for pushing annoted tags only is to do:

   $ git push origin refs/tags/annoted

That's not what Junio said:

   Don't use explicit --tags blindly.  It says "no matter what kind of tag,
   transfer everything under refs/tags".  Otherwise you won't see a
   difference.

So I interpret this like don't use --tags otherwise lightweight and annoted tags are the same.

> "git pull" pulls tags if they can be reached from heads which are
> pulled. It pulls all tags only when asked to.
>

[...]

> So, "non-local" tags are the ones which can be reached from heads which
> you pull, and local ones are the others.

So I can't create a local tag on public heads (the ones I'm pushing out), can I ?

> I don't think lightweight tags are more local than tag objects
> (please correct me if I'm wrong; I think this needs more doc)

Perhaps it needs documents which are more user friendly: I don't know where the 'lightweight' word is coming from (perhaps from the implementation) but I would expect that the _local_ term appears in the git-tag manual.

> It's just that the latter reside in the object db
> store whereas the former are simple refs under refs/tags.

That's implementation detail...

I just need to create a local tag where I'm sure it won't be seen by others whatever the git operations I'm doing, normally a simple "git tag" switch should be enough...

thanks.

-- 
Francis