Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name filtering

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you tell filter-branch to filter a branch A and a tag T, as the 
>>>>> command is advertised to rewrite positive refs that were given from 
>>>>> the command line, isn't it natural to expect that the command would 
>>>>> attempt its best effort to rewrite such a tag object?
>>>> The thing is: signed tags cannot be rewritten.
>>> I know that, and you know I know that if you read what you responded 
>>> again ;-)
>>>
>>> And I think stripping of gpg signature part is a reasonable best effort 
>>> for the command, _when_ the user told a signed tag to be rewritten.
>> Yes.
>>
>> BUT.
>>
>> You can say "--all", and I actually expect quite a few people to do 
>> exactly that.  And then you cannot really say "the user explicitely asked 
>> to have that signed tag rewritten".
> 
> That sounds like saying that specifying "HEAD" as the revision (_and_
> using --tag-name-filter) is not explicitly asking for tags to be rewritten.