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Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-pack-objects: Automatically pack annotated tags if object was packed

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Mar 4, 2008, 07:27 UTC
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Shawn O. Pearce schrieb:
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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>>
>>> The new option "--auto-follow-tags" allows the caller to request that
>>> any annotated tag be included into the packfile if the object the tag
>>> references was also included as part of the packfile.
>> Wouldn't "auto-include-tag" a better name for this option?
> 
> Ooooh.  Indeed it would!
> 
> I shall respin this series based around this better name.

More bikeshedding: Why are you calling it "auto-"? If I tell the program to "--include-tags", I expect it to happen automatically.

-- Hannes
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