Re: git bundle bug?

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2010, 06:55 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTincXfdZehvVjVjtfvbuM-Jim5Tvtm9Yy=s8-fMR@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <i2jaue$f7a$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:45 AM, SungHyun Nam <goweol@gmail.com> wrote:

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> In a current 'git' source tree, next command does not includes
> refs/tags/v1.7.2.
>    $ git bundle create ~/git.bundle v1.7.1..master
>
> After applying the git.bundle, now 'git version' does not
> show 1.7.2, but...
>    $ git version
>    git version 1.7.1.772.g64fdc

'git bundle' only includes the tags that you specifically tell it to. It's kind of like 'git push' that way. If you do:

   git tag -s mytag
   git push origin master

You don't expect origin to contain 'mytag' just because you pushed 'master'.

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> I hope the 'git bundle' includes all the tags when I use 'master'
> or 'HEAD'.
>
> Well, I could use v1.7.1..v1.7.2.  But want to use simple script like:
>    $ git bundle create ~/git.bundle lastbundle..master
>    $ git tag -f lastbundle master

That kind of magic would require 'git bundle' to look at all your tags and see which ones lie in the range lastbundle..master. And even that isn't perfect, since you might have added a new tag that points before lastbundle but was added *after* lastbundle. So every bundle you created would need to include *all* your previous tags.

Nevertheless, if you wanted to create a bundle that includes *all* your tags, but not any of the objects leading up to lastbundle, this works:

   git bundle create ~/git.bundle --tags lastbundle..master

Note however that it will include tags even if they *aren't* part of master. That is, if you have tags pointing at branch 'next', all the objects for those tags will *also* be included.

Have fun,

Avery