Re: [rfd] auto-following tags upon "git push"?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2011, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID: <7vpqmp5vl3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110607173051.GA22216@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Hmm. Is it a clear enough hint when the user uses an actual tag object
> to make a signed or annotated tag? At least for me, private throw-away
> tags tend to just be refs/tags/foo pointing to a commit, and real,
> for-public-consumption tags at least get an annotation, if not a
> signature.
>
> I seem to recall we make a similar distinction somewhere else in the
> code, but I can't remember offhand where. Maybe it was just a proposal
> that never made it anywhere.

You are thinking about "describe", I think, and the analogy holds true. The tag annotation vs lightweight tag is a good hint I forgot to take into account.

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> Anyway, the problem would be somebody who does something like:
>
>   $ git tag -m "here is a description of how this wip is going" foo-wip
>
> which violates the assumption above.

True, I think I did that sometimes.

I personally do not use "private tags" that much anymore; I make liberal use of private branches for that kind of work instead, as it is more flexible (I can check it out, build on it, rebase -i, and generally whip it around in any other way).