From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:06:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name filtering
Message-ID: <47E7DFAD.4060209@nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803241745240.4353@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:
> 
>> So right now, tags matching the refspec are rewritten. They are currently
>> rewritten with a lightweight tag.
> 
> That is unintended.  My understanding of a tag was always that it is 
> something immutable.  I mean, _really_ immutable.  If you released a 
> certain version, then that is tagged.  You must not rewrite the tag.  
> Ever.

Then what is the intended behavior for --tag-name-filter?

-brandon