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, 05:35 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqbnh4hro7.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CABRuA+iVRZR9SxvYVCO5zd0hZEbn6tioyP6dZ5xSbaAeNF4w+w@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Darling <darlingm@gmail.com> writes:

> $ git push --tags --set-upstream origin

[...]

> Note this time there is NO:
>
>  * [new branch]      master -> master
> Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.

man git-push says:

SYNOPSIS
       git push [...] [<repository> [<refspec>...]]
[...]
       --tags
           All refs under refs/tags are pushed, in addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command
           line.

You did not provide any refspec (you provided <repository> but not <refspec>), hence --tags pushes only tags. So, this is the expected behavior.

That said, we may want to add an option like --tags-also that would push tags _in addition_ to what would normally be pushed. --follow-tags does more or less this, though, but only for annotated tags pointing at a ref being pushed.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/