From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:53:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name filtering Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vr6e01xja.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If you tell filter-branch to filter a branch A and a tag T, as the > command is advertised to rewrite positive refs that were given from the > command line, isn't it natural to expect that the command would attempt > its best effort to rewrite such a tag object? The thing is: signed tags cannot be rewritten. As simple as that. They could be recreated if the committer happens to be the original tagger, but even then, it is a rewrite of _tags_, which are _not_ supposed to be moving targets. So it was very much on purpose to disallow rewriting them by default. Ciao, Dscho