From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:37:36 GMT Subject: Re: Pulling tags from git.git Message-ID: <440D9AB0.4070305@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <440D7A7D.8070507@op5.se> Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Andreas Ericsson 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. > Before you do this, please explain why unannotated tags are not useful, and so should not be allowed to be pushed.