# git filter-branch doesn't dereference annotated tags

1 messages from 2012-12-31 to 2012-12-31. Participants: Grégory Pakosz.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32483

## Grégory Pakosz, 2012-12-31 14:36

Subject: git filter-branch doesn't dereference annotated tags
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Hello,

I noticed git-filter-branch doesn't dereference annotated tags prior
to invoking git update-ref -d.

Please find a patch attached that changes the call to git update-ref:

-git update-ref -m "filter-branch: delete" -d "$ref" $sha1
+git update-ref -m "filter-branch: delete" -d $(git rev-parse --verify
"$ref^{commit}") $sha1

Regards,
Gregory


From cee5462f26bbb280f471ba1220398924bfd4bfd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Pakosz <gpakosz@visionobjects.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:30:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] git-filter-branch: Dereference annotated tags upon deletion

git-filter-branch didn't dereference annotated tags upon deletion which made
git-update-ref -d unhappy.
---
 git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index 5314249..773a91b 100755
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ do
 	case "$rewritten" in
 	'')
 		echo "Ref '$ref' was deleted"
-		git update-ref -m "filter-branch: delete" -d "$ref" $sha1 ||
+		git update-ref -m "filter-branch: delete" -d $(git rev-parse --verify "$ref^{commit}") $sha1 ||
 			die "Could not delete $ref"
 	;;
 	$_x40)
-- 
1.8.0.1


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