From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:17:30 GMT
Subject: Re: git-pull and tag objects
Message-ID: <7vr6su1szp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070212162745.GB2741@thunk.org>

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:52:29PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Although it is correct that the people who already saw the
>> original tag would not lose the tag object from their repository
>> when you publish a replacement tag, we have _always_ overwritten
>> the refs/tags/$tag to point at the new one, effectively losing
>> the original.
>
> So I have a suspicion that I have multiple tag objects with the same
> tag name (E2FSPROGS-1_26), from doing an hg conversion.  Is there an
> easy way to search all of the tag objects in my git repository to see
> if this is the case, so I can delete them lest they cause any
> confusion/problems?

"fsck --full" should report "dangling tag".