Re: [feature request] 2) Remove many tags at once and 1) Prune tags on old-branch-before-rebase

From: Eric Chamberland <eric.chamberland@giref.ulaval.ca>
Date: Mar 8, 2013, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID: <513A3DF1.7020009@giref.ulaval.ca>
In-Reply-To: <7v38w6lr8n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi Junio,

On 03/07/2013 06:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Eric Chamberland <Eric.Chamberland@giref.ulaval.ca> writes:
>
> What you want is a way to compute, given a set of tags (or refs in
> general) and a set of branches (or another set of refs in general),
> find the ones in the former that none of the latter can reach.  With
> that, you can drive "git tag -d $(that way)".
>

Yes, this is *exactly* what I want...

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> In other words, the feature does not belong to "git tag" command.
>
>> 2) git tag -d "TOKEN*"
>
> Again, not interesting.  You already have:
>
>      git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags/TOKEN\* |
>      xargs -r git tag -d
>

I don't agree here for one reason:

git tag -l "TOKEN*"

already exists and works very well...

So why is it not interesting to have:

git tag -d "TOKEN*"

We can also write:

git tag -d `git tag -l "TOKEN*"`

but a simple addition to "-d" feature looks like a receivable behavior here, no?

Thanks,

Eric