From: Elijah Newren Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 04:57:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tag: prevent recursive tags Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 12:56 AM Denton Liu wrote: > > Robert Dailey reported confusion on the mailing list about a recursive > tag which was most likely created by mistake. Jeff King noted that this > isn't a very common case so, most likely, creating a tag-to-a-tag is a > user-error. > > Prevent mistakes by erroring and providing advice on recursive tags, > unless "--allow-recursive-tag" is specified. Fix tests that fail as a > result of this change. Any chance we could use the term "nested tag" instead of "recursive tag"?