From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:10:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch.sh: support nearly proper tag name filtering
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803241609540.4353@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7viqzc18j9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I know that, and you know I know that if you read what you responded 
> again ;-)
> 
> And I think stripping of gpg signature part is a reasonable best effort 
> for the command, _when_ the user told a signed tag to be rewritten.

Yes.

BUT.

You can say "--all", and I actually expect quite a few people to do 
exactly that.  And then you cannot really say "the user explicitely asked 
to have that signed tag rewritten".

Ciao,
Dscho