Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Apr 21, 2008, 16:10 UTC
Message-ID: <480CBC76.7020303@nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcdyfe9u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * bc/filter-branch (Wed Mar 26 10:47:09 2008 -0500) 1 commit
>  - filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name filtering
> 
> Instead of discarding signed tags, this demotes them to simply annotated,
> which is technically not that different from signed tags.

I just want to point out that this patch is not exclusively about signed tags.

The patch is about retaining annotated tags rather than demoting them to light-weight tag references as is done currently for _all_ annotated tags, signed and unsigned. When rewriting signed tags, the signature is stripped so that we don't write a tag with a bogus signature.

-brandon

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