Re: Lost association between TAGS and COMMITs when rebased a git(1) repository

From: knittl <knittl89@googlemail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2011, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CACx-yZ0MJq45yUBK5T1mLwXh-maVM0WDwAz7Q4Aswh=PWQYsHg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1B5C619E91F7437EA844D1D3DD3E6798@PhilipOakley>

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:

> Overall, I'm not too unhappy with the terminology, and yes I would like
> filter-branch to be able to copy across tags when creating a publishable
> history - it probably just need me to understand the right --tag-name-filter
> <command>.

filter-branch --tag-name-filter 'cat' ;) – it's even mentioned in the manpage of filter-branch:

> The original tags are not deleted, but can be overwritten; use
>  "--tag-name-filter cat" to simply update the tags. In this case, be
> very careful and make sure you have the old tags backed up in case
> the conversion has run afoul.

unless you meant rebase with filter-branch?

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