git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Confgure option like tagopt=note to notice changed remote tags

From
AHAlexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Date
Mar 4, 2014, 15:42 UTC
Message-ID
<5315F47E.3040801@ahsoftware.de>
Hello,

also I'm using git since a long time, I can't remember that I've noticed that git doesn't make a note or warning if remotes tags have changed.

E.g. what's often will be forgotten is to annotate tags before pushing them. The usual resolution is just to annotate them locally and push them again.

But such a change never ends up at people which already have fetched the tag (without them using git fetch -t). They even don't receive a notice which could remind them to use git fetch -t.

Unfortunately I'm not aware a lot about git internals, but would it be hard to make it configurable (tagopts comes into mind) that git outputs a warning if a remote tag and local tag do disagree about the commit, annotation or sign? I even would prefer such a warning as the default.

Regards,
Alexander Holler
Message 1 of 1 in “Confgure option like tagopt=note to notice changed remote tags”
  1. Alexander HollerMar 4, 2014

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.