Re: tags and patches

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 14, 2007, 01:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706140201400.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0706131715oa84eff7kc0b477a3b80e9d66@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Geoff Russell wrote:

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> On 6/13/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Geoff Russell wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear gits,
> > 
> > ;-)
> > 
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >        git tag v1.1
> > >        git format-patch v1.0
> > >        cd /tmp/newmyrepo
> > >        git am ~/myrepo/THEPATCHNAME
> > >
> > > Where is tag v1.1 ?
> > 
> > Tags are not propagated with patches. Sorry.
> 
> Is this considered to be a bug to be eventually fixed or a feature?

AFAIK patches are not supposed to _contain_ patches.

What you want is probably a bundle. You don't want a collection of diffs with comments on them, but you want a collection to reacreate the history the other side has.

Ciao, Dscho