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Re: Pulling tags from git.git

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FWFlorian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Mar 20, 2006, 18:30 UTC
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* Andreas Ericsson:
>> The current implementation is rather counter-intuitive because it's
>> much easier to create lightweight tags, and you wonder why they aren't
>> replicated by fetches (but some other tags are).
> Well, you wouldn't want to go through the trouble of writing a
> tag-message for a temporary tag, but signing and writing a short note
> for a tag that you intend those who share your workload to have is not
> that much of a bother imo.

It's not obvious from the git-tag documentation that signing makes a difference down the road in terms of replication. IOW, I don't question the distinction per se, but it's counter-intuitive if you aren't told about it.

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  2. David HoMar 6, 2006
  3. Andreas EricssonMar 7, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2006
  5. Andreas EricssonMar 7, 2006
  6. A Large Angry SCMMar 7, 2006
  7. Andreas EricssonMar 7, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2006
  9. A Large Angry SCMMar 8, 2006
  10. Andreas EricssonMar 8, 2006
  11. Florian WeimerMar 9, 2006
  12. Andreas EricssonMar 9, 2006
  13. Florian WeimerMar 20, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2006
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