From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:55:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Re* How to generate pull-request with info of signed tag
Message-ID: <7vobv4mj4r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87iplch79e.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> It would be nice to get the below working
>
> git fetch git-url tag remote-tag-name:local-namespace/tag-name

AFAIR "fetch tag $v" is a shorthand for "fetch refs/tags/$v:refs/tags/$"
invented back when Linus was the maintainer of Git. You can say

 $ git fetch $url refs/tags/remote-tag-name:refs/tags/whatever-tag-name-you-want

to rename their tag to whatever name in your local repository.

Come to think of it, the last patch I sent out on request pull was very
wrong.  The point of the recent change to allow you to pull this way
(notice the lack of "tag")

    $ git pull $url $signed_tag_name

is so that you do not have to contaminate your own ref namespace with tags
that are used to leave audit trails in the history graph.

> That way we can make sure before merging i can cut-paste that url and
> the local tag name i wish to store this to. And then do a git-merge.