git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

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

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 29, 2015, 16:05 UTC
Message-ID
<xmqqeglze5cu.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To
<vpq4mmvs7zx.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> Perhaps a justification is that annotated tags are clearly meant to be
> public while lightweight tags can also be used as private bookmarks.
Ah, thanks.  That makes perfect sense.
> 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.
That too.

I recall "fetch --tags" was updated to become your "--tags-also" by e66ef7ae (Merge branch 'mh/fetch-tags-in-addition-to-normal-refs', 2013-12-12). Perhaps we should do the same on the push side.

Previous: Matthieu MoyNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 5 of 9 in “BUG: For first push to a bare repo, using "--tags" prevents creation of master branch”
  1. Michael DarlingMay 29, 2015
  2. Matthieu MoyMay 29, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2015
  4. Matthieu MoyMay 29, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2015
  7. Matthieu MoyMay 29, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2015

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.