Re: Questions/investigations on git-subtree and tags
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> > Ok, I can understand that you don't want to import tags for
> > namespace reason, but in that case shouldn't
> > git subtree add refuse to create a subtree when the tag isn't a
> > commit
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> It shouldn't and tries not to, but is limited in it's ability to
> identify if a refspec points to a commit or not in the remote repo.
>
ok, i've studied a little more
* the target for "git subtree add <url> <refspec> can only be a remote branch or tag, since we git fetch
can only target remote refs.
* in case of a branch, git subtree forgets the branch and only use the commit linked to the branch. for
tags, the fetch part is ok, it's the merge part that fail. adding ^{} at the right place would probably fix thatShow 8 quoted lines
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> I've posted a patch (which is pending a lot of other changes to
> git-subtree that I'm corralling) that tries to prevent some obvious
> errors in the refspec. But letting the git fetch used by git-subtree
> add and git-subtree pull catch the error and report it may be the
> best
> option.
>
that's interesting... do you have a link ?
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> I've never really tried using --squash, I don't see that it adds any
> value for me.
>
my project has a git subtree for a linux kernel and another subtree for buildroot,
a default .git is about 1.5G, squashing it reduces it to 200M so it's worth it for me :)