From: Rolf Leggewie <foss@rolf.leggewie.biz>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:45:22 GMT
Subject: Re: prevent push of irrelevant tags
Message-ID: <4F873EE2.5090203@rolf.leggewie.biz>
In-Reply-To: <7v1uns67f4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hamano-San,

thank you very much for the ultra-quick reply and your explanation.

On 13.04.2012 04:07, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Git has the information to know...
> 
> No, it doesn't.  
> 
>>  that tag X will be useless in repo Y
>> because the commit Z it points to does not exist in Y.
> 
> Think of a case where:

I am only a simple user so I hope you will not be angry with me if I
misunderstand you.  I believe you are saying that "git push" does not
have the necessary information which I take your word for.  But git
itself surely should know if commit Z is available from repo Y or am I
mistaken?  For example I can do "git log repoY:master|grep $ZcommitID".
 That would return empty if the master branch at repoY didn't have
information about Z*.

Thank you for bearing with me.

Regards

Rolf


* Of course, it's possible that Z is not part of master but another
  branch at Y.