Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] rebase -i: add --refs option to rewrite heads within branch

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 23, 2009, 13:28 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0912231425440.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1ac2d430912222303k6180baa6j291bb4d18c7a4968@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Greg Price wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> >  - This seems to rewrite only branch heads; don't you want to allow 
> > users  to rewrite lightweight tags and possibly annotated ones as 
> > well, by  perhaps giving "--rewrite-refs=refs/heads/" or 
> > "--rewrite-refs=refs/"  to limit what parts of the ref namespace to 
> > consider rewriting?
> 
> Sure.  I specifically left out tags because I generally think of a tag 
> as something immutable that it would not make sense to rewrite.

I do agree: if you plan to rewrite a ref, you _should_ make it a branch anyway.

A tag is not meant to be updated easily, in fact, we explicitely lack tools to do so (and it is quite hard to get updated tags from a repository where the tags changed anyway). So rewriting tags is something that causes only trouble.

Why should rebase -i cause that trouble all of a sudden?

Ciao, Dscho