From: stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:48:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Zombie tag
Message-ID: <56A0EFD2.40204@atlas-elektronik.com>
In-Reply-To: <56A09418.1070201@atlas-elektronik.com>

Am 21.01.2016 um 09:17 schrieb stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com:
> I'm having trouble to get rid of a deleted tag.
> Here's what I did:
> 
> - push master branch from a non-bare repo (R1) into a bare repo (B1)
> - push a tag (tag-a) from R1 into the same B1
> - force-push master from another non-bare repo (R2) into B1
> - do 'git push B1 :tag-a' from R2 to delete the tag
> Now, in B1, 'git fsck' shows a dangling tag that can be identified
> as 'tag-a' from above. There's obviously no reflog in B1.
> I don't know how to get rid of that tag.

Just do 'git gc --prune=all' or 'git prune', stupid!

> A cleaned-up 'script' session of the above is attached.
> 
> The problem initially occurred on Windows with git 2.7.0 but could
> be reproduced on a Linux machine with git 2.7.0.
> 
> What's going on here ?

I guess one never stops learning when using git...

Stefan
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