From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:49:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name filtering
Message-ID: <7viqzc18j9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803241152050.4353@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> If you tell filter-branch to filter a branch A and a tag T, as the 
>> command is advertised to rewrite positive refs that were given from the 
>> command line, isn't it natural to expect that the command would attempt 
>> its best effort to rewrite such a tag object?
>
> The thing is: signed tags cannot be rewritten.

I know that, and you know I know that if you read what you responded again
;-)

And I think stripping of gpg signature part is a reasonable best effort
for the command, _when_ the user told a signed tag to be rewritten.