From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:42:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] request-pull: do something if $3 is passed
Message-ID: <CA+55aFw_pKtraqwMMsqsYgF=ikShH=6ybtb7+QPr8r=77kmoVQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54E3A5E2.6060806@gnu.org>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I guess only Linus could answer that, since he wrote 024d34cb0 and he
> knows the intent better than anyone else.

I don't even understand your problem.

You said

  "when $3 is not passed git will try to use "HEAD" as the default but
it cannot be resolved to a tag, neither locally (patch 2) nor remotely
(patch 3)"

which makes absolutely no sense.

HEAD is not a tag. Never has been, never will be. If you want me to
pull a tag, then you damn well should say what tag you want, not just
randomly say HEAD.

So what is it you want to do? At no point is "HEAD should resolve as a
tag" sensible.

                      Linus