Re: any way to apply tag across all branches in repository?

From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Date: May 19, 2009, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID: <4A130309.2060407@nortel.com>
In-Reply-To: <NFLo0xGp2o-oBdtr_pq1jvwATe1ZALaD9dHkr5hmKNkU30gr_isMpQ@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey wrote:

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> Try these commands:
> 
>   git describe $main
>   git describe $arch_branch
>   git tag -m 'a test tag' my_tag $main
>   git describe $main
>   git describe $arch_branch

In the commands below, "main" is $main, and "arch" is $arch_branch. I'm starting out with the arch branch checked out.

[cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git describe main dynamic_ftrace_excluded-auto-mark-225-g7c2dc32 [cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git describe arch dynamic_ftrace_excluded-auto-mark-225-g7c2dc32 [cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git tag -m 'a test tag' my_tag ncgl [cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git describe arch my_tag [cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git describe arch my_tag

So far so good. Now I make a change to the arch branch, and add another tag to the main branch.

[cfriesen@localhost linux]$ echo a > asdf
[cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git add asdf
[cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git commit
Created commit 4c8dfa7: blah
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 asdf

[cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git describe main my_tag [cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git describe arch my_tag-1-g4c8dfa7

Now we add another tag to the main branch:

[cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git tag -m 'a test tag' my_tag2 main [cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git describe main my_tag [cfriesen@localhost linux]$ git describe arch my_tag-1-g4c8dfa7

I assume that since there were no code changes on the main branch, it doesn't think that there is any difference between the two tags.

Chris