Re: [PATCH] builtin/fetch: print hash of deleted tag when updating

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 26, 2010, 21:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsk0wmbcd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=KVDRzE3-NW+GTO_CL-KtNZ+BjkErgNKMPPtGf@mail.gmail.com>

Knittl <knittl89@googlemail.com> writes:

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> From b1c2b07aa1f5db25ebdf190aa12ccb66a17f131a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:29:16 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] builtin/fetch: print hash of deleted tag when updating
>
> `git fetch --tags` will unconditionally update (and thus overwrite)
> existing tags, which is especially annoying for annotated and signed
> tags.

The first question is why s/he is running fetch with --tags if overwriting is unwelcome/annoying. "--tags" is meant to be used when the auto-follow behaviour of normal fetch is not sufficient and the user actively wants to get the latest (potentially updated) ones; would it be possible that you are solving a wrong problem?