Re: Git subtree stumbles over annotated tags

From: David A. Greene <greened@obbligato.org>
Date: May 21, 2016, 23:02 UTC
Message-ID: <87iny7ovzi.fsf@waller.obbligato.org>
In-Reply-To: <56EAA5DC.1040801@googlemail.com>

Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com> writes:

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> Hello,
>
> On 10/03/16 16:51, Gregor Jasny wrote:
>> today I discovered that it's a bad idea to "git subtree pull" from an
>> annotated tag. This issue got discussed in those two threads:
>>
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/247503> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/248395>
>> I was under the impression that it is fixed in recent versions of git
>> but my homebrew 2.7.0 still behaves badly. If I run the attached script
>> to reproduce the issue I get the following error message:
>
> For the record: this bug was already fixed in November:
> https://github.com/git/git/commit/5d65fe312e22594b7fec7349945fb0072987716b#diff-59f70cbe935ec223e3df413b94cab740
>
> Would it make sense to cherry-pick it into 2.7.x?

I wouldn't object to it if you can prepare the patch but git-subtree is under heavy development and I don't have the free cycles to maintain a "release" version of it.

                      -David