Re: Jabber, question on push,pull and --tags, and no help but jabber

> Hello GIT,
>     first paragraph is reserved for praising your existence.
>     'Used cvs(1) for long years in small team projects with local
>     private repos and never felt the need for anything else.  2011
>     is different.  I first tried you but failed resoundingly.  Due
>     to vim(1) and mutt(1) i discovered hg(1) and i still love it's
>     simple usage.  'Talking about the front-end anyway.  It's huge
>     memory consumption and slow performance forbids it's usage on
>     our old PCs (e.g. Cyrix 166+) though.  So i came back and
>     found you still receptive!  And the more i work, the less
>     i hurt, the greater the knowledge, the smoother the
>     interaction.  Are you the final word on RC in the end?
> 
> I stumbled over one thing i don't understand, because it seems
> illogical: why do i need to use --tags to force pushing of tags?
> Because there is even a config option for the latter, i suspect
> this is because of intention.  It would be nice to get some
> information on the background of that, like a link to yet existing
> documentation.  Anyway i was a bit astonished to look at some

> heavily scripted page of my free private repo webhoster :-) and
> don't see any tags, even though i've pushed multiple times and
> v0.0.0 was created directly after the first commit.  I would *not*
> have detected that otherwise ...
> (Yes i know it's somewhat implied by 'git help push'..--tags.
> But i'm blonde.)
> 
> Some more i'll pack into this so that it's gone with the wind:
> 
> - Due to my weak GPRS or noisy HDSPA radio connection here in the
>   pampa :) i hope for continuable network actions - failing after
>   98% is a costly pain.  So it was a real joy to read somewhere
>   that a GSOC project will address this issue!!
> - OpenSSL support for signing.  I don't use PGP/GPG.  But i use
>   HTTPS, POPS, SSH etc., so i'll have an OpenSSL/OpenSSH
>   environment here on my box ready to use.