Re: [PATCH] tag: allow idempotent "git tag" without "--force"

Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> writes:

The above is not quite a scalable workflow and is not recommendable, though. What if you are publishing to more than one place, and/or sometimes some of them are not reachable? You want to push out your tag not because you newly created it, but because you know some remotes may not have it for whatever reason. "I just created one" is a crude approximate for the latter. "Last time I created one, it somehow failed to push out" (so I have to try again) needs to be considered.

Having said that, ever since I invented "push --follow-tags", I rarely push tags out just for the sake of pushing them out. Only when the real contents that matter are pushed out, tags that point at them would follow.

I do not fell strongly one way or anothre, either. Discarding the topic is easier than keeping it for me, so let me mark it for trash bin.

Thanks.