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Re: Pulling tags from git.git

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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Mar 7, 2006, 12:20 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> 
> 
>>With the git or git+ssh protocol, tags will be autofollowed
>>when you do a pull (only signed tags, I think).  The
>>auto-following is done by detecting tags that are fetched,
> 
> 
> Ah, you are correct.  We do not follow lightweight tags; I am
> not sure if we should.
>

I'm fairly sure we shouldn't. The default update-hook prevents them (if enabled), and I can't for the life of me think of why anyone would want to distribute such tags.

OTOH, preventing unannotated tags from being pushed seems like a better way than to not have the ability to auto-follow those same tags. After all, it's better to discourage than to disallow.

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  1. David HoMar 6, 2006
  2. David HoMar 6, 2006
  3. Andreas EricssonMar 7, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2006
  5. Andreas EricssonMar 7, 2006
  6. A Large Angry SCMMar 7, 2006
  7. Andreas EricssonMar 7, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2006
  9. A Large Angry SCMMar 8, 2006
  10. Andreas EricssonMar 8, 2006
  11. Florian WeimerMar 9, 2006
  12. Andreas EricssonMar 9, 2006
  13. Florian WeimerMar 20, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2006
  15. David HoMar 7, 2006

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