From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:26:34 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG?: git-filter-branch removes mergetags
Message-ID: <xmqqk34uhymd.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140923191317.GA3755@pengutronix.de>

Uwe Kleine-König  <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> writes:

> 	--- /dev/fd/63	2014-09-23 21:07:49.987065017 +0200
> 	+++ /dev/fd/62	2014-09-23 21:07:49.991064988 +0200
> 	@@ -3,32 +3,6 @@
> 	 parent 954263938706bf62d36e81b6b49f313390f2ed35
> 	 author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1411488823 -0700
> 	 committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1411488823 -0700
> 	-mergetag object 954263938706bf62d36e81b6b49f313390f2ed35
> 	- type commit
> ...
>
> I expected the signature to not disappear such that in the example above
> no change is introduced.

Yeah, I agree that the above shows that in the rewritten merge
commit, the side parent 95426393... has not changed from the
original and the mergetag can be taken as a still valid one.