From: Grégory Pakosz <gpakosz@visionobjects.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:50:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git filter-branch doesn't dereference annotated tags
Message-ID: <CAC_01E2HXSnXBgDm=Cbwgi5PbiuHp_qPpoaqT_=pdDWDMnC5jA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <50E55198.5080202@kdbg.org>

>
> IOW, if the command was something like
>
>   git filter-branch ...filter options... -- v1.0 master ...
>
> and v1.0 is an annotated tag, then it is reasonable to expect v1.0 to be
> deleted if the commit it points to goes away. But if the commit did not
> go away, but was rewritten, then it is equally reasonable to expect that
> the tag is also rewritten. But I don't think that we currently do the
> latter.
>
When the commit doesn't go away, the tag is currently being rewritten properly.

> Therefore, IMO, a change that implements the former behavior should also
> implement the latter behavior.
>
The patch in my latest email does both. (yet lacks unit tests for now)

Gregory