From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:19:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-revover-tags-script
Message-ID: <m1d5phnext.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <7voe91jmc6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>
>> What we care about are the tag objects, those are the only kind
>> that are verifiable and usable remotely.  
>>
>> Now that I know we do not pull tags currently with any of the
>> optimized transports, I would suggest taking the list of commit
>> objects we are transporting and for each commit look in the
>> remote repo/refs/tags and transferring every tag object we can find
>> that refers to that commit.
>
> I think if we have discovery mechanism of remote tags/heads, we
> do not need anything else.  You _could_ say something like:
>
>     $ git-list-remote --tags linux-2.6
>     9e734775f7c22d2f89943ad6c745571f1930105f	v2.6.12-rc2
>     26791a8bcf0e6d33f43aef7682bdb555236d56de	v2.6.12
>     ...
>     a339981ec18d304f9efeb9ccf01b1f04302edf32	v2.6.13-rc3
>     $ git-list-remote --tags linux-2.6 |
>       while read sha1 tag;
>       do
>           git fetch linux-2.6 tag $tag
>       done

Actually looking a little deeper unless I have misread
the code git-fetch-pack at least will only ask for commit
objects so git fetch will never return a tag object.

I have yet to find where it git-fetch-pack actually prints
objects out so I still may be something.

Eric