# Pushing a single tag (ref + object)? 4 messages from 2005-10-19 to 2005-10-19. Participants: Martin Langhoff, Linus Torvalds, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2143 ## Martin Langhoff, 2005-10-19 06:05 Subject: Pushing a single tag (ref + object)? Message-ID: <46a038f90510182305j1fa2c4bh6d2b36c2fdd058ce@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46a038f90510182305j1fa2c4bh6d2b36c2fdd058ce%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <46a038f90510131929m3dac4cc5y6071550e9e9c71ad@mail.gmail.com> ``` While we are using a repo which holds all our branches (dev/test/prod), locally we have a group of developers that checkout one repo-per-branch, working on it with a cg-clone/cg-update/cg-commit/cg-push workcycle. So far it's working great. Now, I am at a loss on how to push a _tag_ object+ref to the repo, without doing a git-push --all, which I naturally don't want to do. I managed to push the object itself, doing git-push repository tagrefname But that ddn't create the ref on the repo. So I had to do scp .git/refs/tags/refname repostory/refs/tags/ I'm feeling a tad lost here. Surely there's a way? Or should I be crafting a patch against git-push-script? Problem is, git-push script doesn't do any parsing of the params. Grmbl. martin ``` ## Linus Torvalds, 2005-10-19 14:13 Subject: Re: Pushing a single tag (ref + object)? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0510190702360.3369%40g5.osdl.org In-Reply-To: <46a038f90510182305j1fa2c4bh6d2b36c2fdd058ce@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > Now, I am at a loss on how to push a _tag_ object+ref to the repo, > without doing a git-push --all, which I naturally don't want to do. I > managed to push the object itself, doing > > git-push repository tagrefname This really should work. Can you try with git-send-pack repository tagname first? If that works for you (it really really should, since that's what I do all the time), then the problem is in "get_remote_refs_for_push".. Oh. Looking at "git-push.sh", I think it is just really really buggy. It does all this magic to set "x", but then it never uses it, and uses "$@" instead after all. Which it has shifted all away. How does that thing work at all? Me, I've always used the raw git-send-pack program, so I've never tested it, but obviously others are using it. Linus ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2005-10-19 16:58 Subject: Re: Pushing a single tag (ref + object)? Message-ID: <7vvezt8mvv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vvezt8mvv.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: ``` Linus Torvalds writes: > It does all this magic to set "x", but then it never uses it, and uses > "$@" instead after all. Which it has shifted all away. Your /bin/sh scripting is rotting ;-) That is not a variable. If you saw the script actually used the value 'x' then you have spotted a bug. That 'x' is not a magic but an old idiom to protect 'set' from getting confused by "$1" that happens to begin with a '-'. Setting random things is done by "set x random things" immediately followed by shifting that x away. ``` ## Linus Torvalds, 2005-10-19 20:23 Subject: Re: Pushing a single tag (ref + object)? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0510191319320.3369%40g5.osdl.org In-Reply-To: <7vvezt8mvv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> ``` On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Your /bin/sh scripting is rotting ;-) That is not a variable. Ahh. No. My /bin/sh scripting just has never been that good to begin with, since there's little reason to do so inside the kernel ;) I literally didn't understand what "set" does. Thx. man-pages to the rescue. Linus ```