Re: Pushing tag from a partial clone

> On Jul 20, 2020, at 14:18, Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/20/2020 7:44 AM, Son Luong Ngoc wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> At $day_job, we are trying to push tags to a repo from a partial clone copy.
>> However it seems like this push would requires the partial clone copy to download more objects?
>> Is this intended?
>> 
>> Reproduce:
>> 
>> 	mkdir repo && cd repo
>> 	git init
>> 	git remote add origin git@domain.com:path/repo.git
>> 	git fetch --filter=tree:0 --no-tags --prune origin <commit-id>
>> 	git sparse-checkout init --cone
>> 	git checkout --force <commit-id>
>> 	git tag -a sluongng-test -m "Test push from partial clone"
>> 	git push HEAD:refs/tags/sluongng-test
>> 	<git starts to download objects>
>> 
>> Ideally we would like to be able to push tag from a shallow + partial clone repo without 
>> having to download extra objects if possible.
>> We would like to keep the required repo to the absolute minimum.
>> 	git fetch --depth 1 --filter=tree:0 --no-tags --prune origin <commit-id>
>> 
>> Creating and pushing tags should not require local repo to have trees/blobs in it?
>> 
>> Git version: 2.27.0
> 
> Could you try this again with 2.28.0-rc1? I think Jonathan
> Tan added the "no-fetch" flag in more places since 2.27.0,
> and this might already be fixed.