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Re: cg-clone not fetching all tags?

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 30, 2006, 04:11 UTC
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<7vaca31z50.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<20060429221114.557FC35288F@atlas.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> writes:
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> In message <200604292342.16306.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> you wrote:
>>
>> There are two types of tags: They can point to
>> 1. a commit object
>> 2. a proper tag object (which in turn references the commit)
>> 
>> git-update-server-info seems to generate info only for case 2, and so are the 
>> only ones that http can fetch.
>
> And git-cvsimport (at least older versions of it)  imports  CVS  tags
> only as type 1 ?
>
> That would perfectly explain the situation. How can this be fixed?

I suspect there is no need to manufacture the tag. Something like this should do.

*WARNING* Since I do not do Porcelain, and I am not a Cogito user, this is obviously untested. In addition, I am seriously drunk right now...

-- >8 -- [PATCH] (cogito) Auto-follow lightweight tags as well.

---
diff --git a/cg-fetch b/cg-fetch
index 687e6b9..39764c7 100755
--- a/cg-fetch
+++ b/cg-fetch
@@ -218,7 +218,8 @@ fetch_tags()
 	git-ls-remote --tags "$uri" |
 		# SHA1 refs/tags/v0.99.8^{} --> SHA1 tags/v0.99.8
 		# where SHA1 is the object v0.99.8 tag points at.
-		sed -ne 's:\([^	]\)	refs/\(tags/.*\)^{}$:\1 \2:p' |
+		sed -n -e 's:\([^	]\)	refs/\(tags/.*\)^{}$:\1 \2:p' \
+		    -e 's:\([^	]\)	refs/\(tags/.*\)$:\1 \2:p|' \
 		while read sha1 tagname; do
 			# Do we have the tag itself?
 			[ -s "$_git/refs/$tagname" ] && continue
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  1. Wolfgang DenkApr 27, 2006
  2. Wolfgang DenkApr 29, 2006
  3. Petr BaudisApr 29, 2006
  4. Johannes SixtApr 29, 2006
  5. Wolfgang DenkApr 29, 2006
  6. Johannes SixtApr 29, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 30, 2006
  8. Wolfgang DenkApr 30, 2006
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