Re: BUG: For first push to a bare repo, using "--tags" prevents creation of master branch

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: May 29, 2015, 15:45 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq4mmvs7zx.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq617bflzh.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Yeah.  I am not sure --tags-also is necessarily a good thing (I do
> not think "fetch --tags" is a good thing, either).  If --follow-tags
> does not touch lightweight ones, that may be a bug we would want to
> fix.  I did not mean to implement --follow-tags that way, and I do
> not offhand remember if there was a reason to omit lightweight ones.

It's documented to push only annotated tags both in the commit message of c2aba15 (push: --follow-tags, 2013-03-04) and in the man page, so it was done on purpose, but I don't know if it was a good thing.

Perhaps a justification is that annotated tags are clearly meant to be public while lightweight tags can also be used as private bookmarks.

In any case, the fact that it's been this way and documented this way since 2013 makes it a bit hard to change now.

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Matthieu Moy
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