From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:05:35 GMT
Subject: Re: tags and patches
Message-ID: <93c3eada0706131905i1cd43fd2xcc44ce47dca8ce00@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706140201400.4059@racer.site>

On 6/14/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Geoff Russell wrote:
>
> > On 6/13/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Geoff Russell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dear gits,
> > >
> > > ;-)
> > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > >        git tag v1.1
> > > >        git format-patch v1.0
> > > >        cd /tmp/newmyrepo
> > > >        git am ~/myrepo/THEPATCHNAME
> > > >
> > > > Where is tag v1.1 ?
> > >
> > > Tags are not propagated with patches. Sorry.
> >
> > Is this considered to be a bug to be eventually fixed or a feature?
>
> AFAIK patches are not supposed to _contain_ patches.

Is this a typo? I expected patches to contain tags, not other patches.

>
> What you want is probably a bundle. You don't want a collection of diffs
> with comments on them, but you want a collection to reacreate the history
> the other side has.

I didn't know about bundles but do now.  However "git bundle --help" tells
me "No manual entry for git-bundle" despite
git-bundle.html being in the Documentation directory.

I'm trying to work out if I want to use git to manage a software distribution
problem. I distribute release v1.0 to people then later I want to email them
a patch to take them from v1.0 to v1.1.  I can probably live without
the tags, but
am just surprised that patches don't send them.


Cheers,
Geoff

>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>