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Re: git-tag bug? confusing git fast-export with double tag objects

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
May 16, 2009, 08:02 UTC
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<4A0E7333.3020104@op5.se>
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<200905160956.27417.jnareb@gmail.com>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> On Sat, 16 May 2009, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> Add a tag with a new name, pointing to the original tag. Try doing what
>> Matthias did and then run "git show $tagname". It won't show the original
>> tag at all, so people have to resort to low-level commands in order to
>> see it, but it will still exist as an object.
> 
> Not true. Did you check that?
> 

Yes, but with light-weight tags on a repo after cvs import. Mea culpa, so this is a non-issue. Thanks for politely pointing out my error :-)

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  15. Jeff KingMay 15, 2009
  16. Matthias AndreeMay 15, 2009
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  21. Andreas EricssonMay 15, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2009
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  24. Jakub NarebskiMay 16, 2009
  25. Andreas EricssonMay 16, 2009
  26. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2009
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  28. Jeff KingMay 19, 2009
  29. Jeff KingMay 16, 2009
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