Re: [RFC] On how to manage tags fetched from remote?

From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
Date: Nov 19, 2008, 07:50 UTC
Message-ID: <87skpotar1.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <91b13c310811181827y4e37815egaa34ba164d9f4269@mail.gmail.com>

"rae l" <crquan@gmail.com> writes:

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> 2. Store a no-tags config item to the remote config, which like:
>   [remote "linux-iscsi"]
> 	url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mnc/linux-2.6-iscsi.git
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-iscsi/*
> 	fetch-tags = false
>   when git fetch read the no-tags config, it will disable tags from this remote;

A config option like that already exists.  I am using:

[remote "git.debian.org"]
	url = git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/elinks.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/git.debian.org/*
	fetch = refs/tags/*:refs/tags/git.debian.org/*
	tagopt = --no-tags

So I have e.g. a ref called refs/tags/git.debian.org/orig-0.11.4 that points to a tag object that says "tag orig-0.11.4". I hope git fsck will never be changed to complain about that.