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Re: prevent push of irrelevant tags

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Apr 12, 2012, 20:34 UTC
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Rolf Leggewie <foss@rolf.leggewie.biz> writes:
> I just ran into the situation that "git push --tags" pushed tags to the
> remote repo that point to commits that do not exist there.  How can this
> happen?
A tag is just a ref like any other.
> Git has the information to know that tag X will be useless in repo Y
> because the commit Z it points to does not exist in Y.

It is not useless. After you pushed the tag the commit Z it points to exists now in Y as well.

Andreas.
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