Re: push not resolving commit-ish?

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:10:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> Looks like push can't resolve tags to commits.
>> >> Why is that?
>> >>
>> >> linux$ git push -f $PWD v3.10-rc2:refs/heads/vhost-next
>> >
>> > Perhaps v3.10-rc2^{}. Yeah, totally and completely not-user-friendly,
>> 
>> More commonly "v3.10-rc2^0:vhost-next", if you are truly pushing it
>> out to a remote repository, but then it invites a puzzlement "What
>> do you plan to do next after pushing?  The only reason v3.10-rc2 is
>> used is because there is not yet a local branch that will host the
>> vhost-next changes that is built on top of that tag (otherwise you
>> would be pushing that branch to vhost-next)".
>> 
>> But in this particular case, you are force-pushing into the current
>> repository, and it is spelled much more commonly
>> 
>>     git branch -f vhost-next v3.10-rc2
>> 
>> I would think.
>
> That was just a bad example though, I really use it for
> push to remove.